[Distutils] setuptools and shared library dependencies

[P.J. Eby]

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.)

(Also, if you use this approach, the .egg doesn't need to be 
installed unzipped.)