Re: Gnumeric & Python

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

IIRC, python should record some of this information in
$(exec_prefix)/lib/python$(version)/config/Makefile.  Specifically, the
definition of LIBS.

I use the information in this file for the autoconf scripts for pygtk and
pygnome.  In gnumeric's config script, you could try adding something like
this:

eval `sed -n '/^LIBS=/ s/LIBS=[ 	]*\(.*\)/PY_XTRA_LIBS="\1"/p' \
  /usr/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile`
AC_SUBST(PY_EXTRA_LIBS)

Hopefully this will be helpful to someone.

James Henstridge.

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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Michael Hudson wrote:

> I downloaded gnumeric, got it compiled.
> The core app seems to work very nicely. 
> It's the plug-ins I'm having the odd problem with. 
> When I lauched gnumeric I got errors of the 
> unable to open module file: /usr/local/lib/gnumeric/plugins/libpython.so:
>  undefined symbel: rlcomplete
> variety.
> 
> The problem is that my Python binary has various extensions compiled into 
> it that depend on shared libraries; this one depends on the readline
> module.
> 
> I've hacked my plugins/python/Makefile.am as follows:
> 
> -libpython_la_LIBADD = -l$(PYTHON_LIBS) $(PTHREAD_LIB)
> +libpython_la_LIBADD = -l$(PYTHON_LIBS) $(PTHREAD_LIB) \
> +                      -lreadline -lcrypt -ltcl -ltk -lncurses \
> +                      -lgdbm
> 
> but that's only going to work for my particular set of modules.
> 
> Is this a known problem? Is a solution being worked on? I could probably
> cobble together an autoconf macro or two to autodetect at least the
> modules I've heard of... should I try this?
> 
> The perl module also doesn't load for similar reasons, but I know vastly
> less about that.
> 
> Michael Hudson
> Jesus College
> Cambridge
> mwh21@cam.ac.uk
> 
> 
> 
> 
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