I can do this, but afaics, that shouldn't be necessary, this is nothing to do with developing python programs.
I have a perfectly good python application, which relies on find_library to find a dynamic library at run-time. (for what it's worth, this is geodjango, which wants to be able to get at libgeos_c.so) Since I don't have python-dev installed (because I don't want to develop a new python program, I just want to run an existing one), then my application keeps failing - it can't find the dynamic libraries it needs, because find_library keeps on returning None. It took me quite a while to track down the fact that it was due to binutils missing. Therefore, I contend that this is not a development feature, this is simply required for the Python runtime, and as such is still a bug, so I'm reopening it. ** Changed in: python2.5 (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- python is missing dependency on binutils https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs