Dear all, I'm in the process of shifting a project I run over to using setuptools for distribution. Things have mostly worked quite well to this point, so compliments to all involved. :-) I'm just about finished, but I've run up against a problem with extension modules that have shared library dependencies. Here's a schematic of my directory structure: BASE/ bin/ libDepA.so pydir/ __init__.py modA.so foo.py modA.so is an extension module that is dynamically linked against libDepA.so. I've managed to get everything setup so that I can create an egg reproducing the directory structure above, install that egg (not zipped) with easy_install, and do things like
from pydir import foo However, when I try to import modA: from pydir import modA I get the (expected) "ImportError: libDepA.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
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? thanks, -greg