Bug 18711

Summary:	dynamic python library missing
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Weidner <3.14159>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alastair Tse (RETIRED) <liquidx>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Weidner 2003-04-03 16:58:31 UTC

Hi,

i have python-2.2.2 installed,but i am missing libpython2.2.so and
libpython2.2.so.0.0 . My debian installation has those shared libraries so i
assume it's a bug in gentoo that they are missing. pls correct

Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-06 08:26:49 UTC

is there something that specifically needs libpython to by dynamic?

shared library for libpython is not supported by python-2.2 and the debian version is a hack, horrible at best. i don't want to create more QA issues for this because python is one of our core packages.

for reference, this is the comment in debian's package:

++# WARNING: The following is only tested for Debian GNU/Linux.
++# This rule is silly and needs to be cleaned up ASAP!
++#      Gregor Hoffleit <flight@debian.org>
++#
++# This rule is here for Linux shared libs
++# The PIC code will be built additionally to the static lib!

and also various other attempts to get shared lib support into python-2.2 have been met with resistance:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=460751&group_id=5470
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2000-January/msg00009.html

and is also covered in the Python FAQ. 

So, I'm going to respectfully close this as WONTFIX. I've heard rumours that 2.3 might have shared lib support, if it does then we'll support it then.