* "Martin v. Löwis" (Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:58:35 +0100) > > If you think making a distinction between the SQLite package and the > > libsqlite package is pedantic - I don't have a problem with that. > > I think that is not only pedantic - it is also inaccurate. There is > no SQLite package, nor is there a libsqlite package, in the bigger+ > world. > [..] > So there is no SQLite download, nor is there a libsqlite download. > > I don't know what specific packages you are talking about - probably > about the way your Linux distribution choses to package things.
Some Distributions (for example SUSE) have a package called libsqlite [1]. > > Fact is that none of the packages are required for using sqlite3 > > with Python - they are only required when you want to compile Python > > yourself or when Python uses the shared library. > > So the shared library *is* required (as that is the typical way in > which SQLite is built) ,--- * [2] | > That's not what I meant: the question is, do you need SQLite /after/ | > you've built from source or if you install the Python binary. | | Depends on how you built SQLite on your system. If it was a static | library, you won't need it - if it is a shared library, you certainly | need the shared library at run-time. `--- > > And even if you want to compile Python yourself, SQLite doesn't have > > to be _installed_. You simply can dump the files wherever you like > > and point Python to it. This is often necessary on a machine where > > you cannot install anything to the default locations because you > > don't have admin rights. > > And that is nit-picking. No, it's not. That was my advice for people here who wanted to build Python with SQLite support but claimed not having rights to install it. Obviously... > You don't have to do the "make install" step, but I would suggest to > do that, anyway, even on a machine where you don't have admin rights. > You just pass --prefix to the configure of the amalgamated sources. > This puts sqlite nicely into bin, include, and lib directories, so > that Python's setup.py can find it easier. ...this advice is even much better (but I didn't think of it). Thorsten [1] http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=libsqlite [2] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/0d7ec003e4d3ea42 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
