Error with Python 2.3 as a shared Library

[Kiyo Kelvin Lee]

You need to add /whatever/lib to the path for searching .so files.
If you are root, normally you may edit /etc/ld.so.conf to add the path permanently.
If you are not root, you can set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

for sh: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/whatever/lib
for csh: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /whatever/lib

or simply use the env command:

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/whatever/lib python

Note that this is nothing special to python but normal behaviour of Linux or Linux like operating systems including many Unices.

Regards,
Kiyo

"Francisco Miguel Montenegro Montes" <fmm at cca.iac.es> wrote in message news:mailman.1060831041.1705.python-list at python.org...
> Hi, perhaps some of you can help me...
> 
> I'm installing Python 2.3 (in Linux RedHat 8.0) and I need to build it 
> like a shared library, because I want to interact
> Python with PostgreSQL. Following the README instructions, I try:
> 
> ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/whatever   (I'm not root of my 
> system, so I can't use /usr/local/)
> make
> make install
> 
> it seems to be ok, without errors. And when I try :  
> 
>   /whatever/bin/python
> 
> it says:
> 
> whatever/bin/python    error while loading shared libraries: 
> libpython2.3.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> but this library (libpython2.3.so.1.0 ) is in the whatever/lib directory.
> 
> What's wrong? Is it something related to the path? How can I tell python 
> where the library is? Or is it not the problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>