[Distutils] Dynamic linking on Linux, Mac OS, et al

[Jeff Pitman]

On 1/7/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 06:20 AM 1/6/2006 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> >Besides, Unix systems these days tend to have the required libraries
> >installed anyway.
>
> Not libPyICU, since it's a part of PyICU.  Similar issues may apply to
> other multi-extension projects that need to share a large chunk of code.

Whether this is the right way to do things is up for debate. Earlier
in the thread libpng.so was thrown out as example--this immediately
threw some red flags up because it's a common/standard lib that comes
with most distros.

If you need .so that's built and exported by the same packaged egg,
you may just consider installing it in a more benign area such as
/usr/local/lib. Though, the *BSD folks may also have some thoughts on
the matter. Messing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH is never the right way to go
about solving this. Unless you're Oracle...

Please keep in mind that the different *nixes will want to stick with
their own package formats, managers, and automatic dep solvers.
Enhancing setuptools to facilitate these (bdist_rpm/bdist_deb), will
be more beneficial in the long run.

--
-jeff