[Python-Dev] readline and setup.py

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> The new setup.py procedure for Python causes readline not to
> be built on my machine. Instead I get a linker error telling
> me that termcap is not found.
> 
> Looking at my old Setup file, I have this line:
> 
> readline readline.c \
>          -I/usr/include/readline -L/usr/lib/termcap \
>          -lreadline -lterm
> 
> I guess, setup.py should be modified to include additional
> library search paths -- shouldn't hurt on platforms which
> don't need them.

Here's a patch which works for me:

projects/Python> diff CVS-Python/setup.py Dev-Python/
--- CVS-Python/setup.py Mon Jan 22 11:36:56 2001
+++ Dev-Python/setup.py Mon Jan 22 11:40:15 2001
@@ -216,10 +216,11 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
             exts.append( Extension('rgbimg', ['rgbimgmodule.c']) )
 
         # readline
         if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'readline')):
             exts.append( Extension('readline', ['readline.c'],
+                                   library_dirs=['/usr/lib/termcap'],
                                    libraries=['readline', 'termcap']) )
 
         # The crypt module is now disabled by default because it breaks builds
         # on many systems (where -lcrypt is needed), e.g. Linux (I believe).
 


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