Michael, On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:57:45PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:

Building from CVS, no shared modules build, because distutils is looking for libpython2.3.dll, which isn't being built.

These lines in Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py are the problem:

elif sys.platform[:6] == "cygwin": template = "python%d.%d" pythonlib = (template % (sys.hexversion >> 24, (sys.hexversion >> 16) & 0xff)) # don't extend ext.libraries, it may be shared with other # extensions, it is a reference to the original list return ext.libraries + [pythonlib]

It would be better, IMHO, to write

elif sys.platform[:6] == "cygwin": pythonlib = "python" + sys.version[:3] # don't extend ext.libraries, it may be shared with other # extensions, it is a reference to the original list return ext.libraries + [pythonlib]

as sys.version and VERSION in configure.in are pretty much guaranteed to be in sync.

Shall I check this in, or do you have a better idea?

The looks OK by me, but I feel that this is a question for the Distutils list. Any opinions on Michael's proposal? Thanks, Jason