#3 Linking error with Python 2.x/CVS

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

[Glimmer 1.0 release]

When building against Python 2.0 from CVS, "-lutil" needs to be added to the link command to allow the forkpty() and openpty() functions to be found; these are used in the posix module.

You can get the list of supplemental libraries needed by python this way:

% python
Python 2.0 (#393, Jan 3 2001, 17:23:11)
[GCC 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import distutils.sysconfig
>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBS')
'-lpthread -ldl -lutil'

Good luck!

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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Any chance this will get fixed anytime soon? Waiting for a new Python release won't help; Python's doing all it can to tell you what it needs.

I can help on the Python side, but this is a configuration / build control issue for Glimmer.

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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Changed summary to reflect that this is a problem for all
Python 2.x releases, not just Python 2.0.

[Chris Phelps]

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While it is possible to get glimmer to link with python 2.x,
it appears that the C api is broken, at least in all of the
rpms that I have found, and that other users have tried.

[Chris Phelps]

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Fixed now.