Bugs item #1489246, was opened at 2006-05-15 20:52 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1489246&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tim Mooney (enchanter) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: 2.4.3 fails to find Tcl/Tk on Solaris 10 x86_64 Initial Comment: First, I'm a complete python newbie, but I have lots of experience with other languages and I'm very experienced at building software on UNIX platforms. I've built 64 bit (LP64) versions of Tcl 8.4.13 and Tk 8.4.13 with the Sun Studio 11 compiler. They're installed under /local, with the libraries in /local/lib/64 , since the Solaris convention is to use lib/64 for ELF64 libraries. I can configure and compile Python 2.4.3 as an LP64 executable, but setup.py fails to find Tcl/Tk. I'm suspicious (but not certain) that the problem is that the calls to self.compiler.find_library_file in setup.py aren't finding any of the locally installed libraries because find_library_file isn't searching the "64" subdirectory under lib. I've been through the README, and looked at the URL for the FAQ mentioned in the README (though I don't see a "section 3" of the FAQ). Most of the suggestions in the README in the Solaris section are geared toward what to do when python can't find your shared libraries *at run time*. That's not the problem here. I have my loader set up (via crle with the -64 option) to search all of the necessary locally-installed directories that contain ELF64 libraries. The problem is that Python's setup can't find the libraries in the first place. Suggestions? If I already knew Python, I could probably figure out how to subclass "compiler" to always search the "/64" version of a library directory when I'm on Solaris and the compiler flags contain a certain set of characters (better yet would be to actually compile something to an object file and test whether it's ELF64). Unfortunately, I'm not at that level yet. This instance is specific to Solaris, but the general problem applies to other multi-ABI platforms too, like IRIX, HP-UX, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1489246&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
