libraries and paths ... (argh!)

[Gerhard Häring]

Axel Bock wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm writing here cause I have an annoying problem. 
> I have:
> 	- linux gentoo 1.4rc_somewhat
> 	- custom compiled berkeley DB 4.1 in /home/.../db-4.1
> [...]
>>>>import bsddb3
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/home/tm/projects/python22/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ \\
> 	bsddb3/__init__.py", line 46, in ?
>     import _db
> ImportError: /home/tm/projects/python22/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ \\
> 	bsddb3/_db.so: undefined symbol: log_archive
> 
> -------------------snip----------------------
> 
> Hm. As said - I think it finds first the one in /lib, which is wrong. 
> I already set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the correct location, but ... ??
> 
> Has anyone any hint how I could solve this? All help is very much
> appreciated!

If you want to avoid setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (which should work, 
though), you can throw the "-rpath /home/..../lib/" into the options 
used when compiling Python's bsddb module.

-- Gerhard