Bug 298232 – app-office/dia fails to find libpython26.a from the prefix

• Product: Gentoo/Alt
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Richard Connon 2009-12-24 16:27:00 UTC]

the configure script ends with this output...
checking for libpython2.6.a... not found
configure: error: could not find files required to build python plugin

the configure script doesn't take a path on --with-python

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2010-01-23 15:48:51 UTC]

what does python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix" return?

and is usr/lib/python2.6/config/libpython2.6.a a valid symlink?

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2010-01-23 15:50:07 UTC]

(does it exist at all)

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2010-01-23 15:50:48 UTC]

hmmm, weird, proper gentoo linux doesn't have that file either

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2010-01-23 15:57:09 UTC]

-  if test -e "${py_config_dir}/libpython${PYTHON_VERSION}.a"; then
+  if test -e "$PYTHON_PREFIX/${py_lib}/libpython${PYTHON_VERSION}.so"; then

right.  braindead patch.

[Comment 5 Richard Connon 2010-01-27 12:36:22 UTC]

What's the status of this bug? Do you still need info?

[Comment 6 Fabian Groffen 2010-01-27 16:49:01 UTC]

it's looking for .so, not .a, and you only have a .dylib.

[Comment 7 Fabian Groffen 2010-04-26 18:24:07 UTC]

I applied a brute force sed hack to make the check look for the right extension instead of the hardcoded .so, which should fix this problem.