[Python-Dev] Please give this patch for building bsddb a try

[Gerhard Häring]

* Barry A. Warsaw <barry@zope.com> [2002-06-18 22:34 -0400]:
> The problem is that unless your sysadmin hacks ld.so.conf to add
> /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.X.Y/lib onto your standard ld run path,
> bsddbmodule.so won't be linked in such a way that it can actually
> resolve the symbols at run time.
> [...]
> os.environ['LD_RUN_PATH'] = dblib_dir

I may be missing something here, but AFAIC that's what the library_dirs
parameter in the Extension constructor of distutils is for. It basically
sets the runtime library path at compile time using the "-R" linker
option.

Gerhard
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