[arch-dev-public] python-2.6.2 and files in /usr/lib/python2.5
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Sun Apr 19 20:35:24 EDT 2009
Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 21:00 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have just put python-2.6.2-1 into [testing]. This remove the
>> python-2.5 compatibility sitepath so anything not rebuilt since
>> python-2.6 was release will be broken. The list of broken packages as
>> of yesterday is in FS#13831
>> (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13831?getfile=3375).
>>
>> Note that these don't need built against the python in [testing] to be
>> fix, just rebuilt against an python-2.6 package.
>>
>
> While you're updating python, could you also
> link /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so to the path where libpython2.6.a is
> located inside the package? I did this in my build chroots, and it
> causes applications to link dynamic instead of static against the python
> library. Without this, inkscape won't even link to libpython at all.
>
So programs are detecting /usr/lib/python2.6/config/libpython2.6.a but
not /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.... that seem rather screwed up!
I'll commit it to CVS so the change will get pulled in either when I gt
around to it or with the readline rebuilds.
Allan
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