[Distutils] setuptools and shared library dependencies

[Greg Landrum]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:32 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at 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