On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:32 PM, P.J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 06:57 AM 2/4/2009 +0100, Greg Landrum wrote:
If I were not using setuputils, I would make sure that I had BASE/bin in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and everything would work without problems.
If I explictly add the bin directory from the egg (/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/BASE-0.1-py2.5-linux-i686.egg) to LD_LIBRARY_PATH things also work, but requiring this level of involvement from the user isn't particularly pleasing.
Is there a solution to this problem or is this a use case that doesn't fit with setuptools?
There's an experimental and unsupported solution, if you use setuptools to build the shared library, and you're on a compatible platform. See the 'tests/shlib_test' subdirectory of the setuptools SVN trunk for info. (The necessary code is in the 0.6 branch as well, but the tests are only in the trunk.)
I'm afraid I'm not using setuptools to build. Does this mean I'm stuck? -greg