Alex Martelli wrote: > > I wrote the following file za.c: <sample code snipped>
> and proceeded to compile and execute as follows: [[Note: it does not > matter that I'm using 2.5, the code is just as fine with previous > versions -- it just happens that 2.5 is what I'm using right now in > order to help out with 2.5's beta testing]]: > > brain:~/pyex alex$ gcc -c za.c -I/usr/local/include/python2.5 > brain:~/pyex alex$ gcc -o za za.o -L/usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/ > -lpython2.5 > brain:~/pyex alex$ ./za I needed to include a lot more flags to make the example compile. In particular: -L /usr/local/lib/python2.4/config/ -lpython2.4 -lrt -lm -ldl -lutil Why did you not need them? Is this a misconfiguration on my box, or something entirely different? I've seen this type of thing come up a lot, and I can't tell if it is simply the author omitting flags for the sake of brevity, or if I'm actually missing something. -- Bill Pursell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
