In the process of creating a Python module for a commercial package, I have built a Distutils package for it (using Distutils-0.8.2).
Unfortunately, the commercial package I'm dealing with has a long list of libraries required to be linked, with several specified static and the rest dynamic.
The recommended library spec (for Solaris, which is what I'm working with at the moment) looks something like this:
-l<lib> ... -l<lib> -Bstatic -l<lib>... -l<lib> -Bdynamic -l<lib>...-l<lib> -R<path>
My setup.py (built from the distutils template) has all the libraries listed in a 'libraries' record against the module, and things appear to link OK as is though I'm still chasing down a couple of things which might turn out to be related to the static/dynamic stuff above.
I tried looking in the documentation, but the bits that might answer my question haven't been written yet :-(
What would be the recommended way to deal with this, if Distutils in its current form can handle this situation?
(BTW http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/dist/source-dist.html has an HTML problem, at least with IE 3.02)
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