Robert Kern wrote: >> Sorry. To clarify, making libpython2.5a available in a >> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH was necessary to build numpy and scipy. > > I don't see how that could have affected anything. Static libraries > aren't looked up in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Certainly not for build-time linking.
OK--new thing learned for the day. <rant>I try things until a build works. I consider everything I do until acquiring a working build as necessary. Going back to see exactly what I did to make things work is not a viable option given that every new program I want requires my building it and all of its dependencies--a consequence of the [adjective deleted] beuracratic constraints (with regard to the machine on my desktop) that have evolved here. These constraints are no doubt a byproduct of the "Institute" part of my signature below, associated paranoia, and over-worked sys-admins.</rant> The upside is that my entire environment turns out to be roughly transportable to other Linux machines on the network via an NFS home directory--more or less independent of the configuration of said other machines. > What do your environment variables look like when you build? euler 2% echo $CPPFLAGS -I/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/include -I/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/qt/include -I/usr/include -I/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/include/freetype2/freetype euler 3% echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib:/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/qt/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib/:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3:/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/ccp4-5.0.2/lib euler 4% echo $LDFLAGS -L/data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3 Here is how I customize my ld.so.cache: euler 9% cat ldconf rm ld.so.cache /sbin/ldconfig -v -f ./ld.so.conf -C ./ld.so.cache echo source this euler 10% cat ld.so.conf /data10/users/jstroud/Programs/lib /data10/users/jstroud/Programs/qt/lib /data10/users/jstroud/Programs/newlib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/qt3/lib /usr/lib/wine /usr/include/pgsql Again, see the above rant for an explanation about any needless paths or flags--though advice and knowledge is welcome. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
