[PyKDE] PyKDE-3.11rc1 release

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 10 May 2004 7:45 am, Simon Edwards wrote:
> On Sunday 09 May 2004 17:12, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > [sbe at f53113 /home/sbe/devel/guidance/displayconfig]$ python
> > Python 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 17 2004, 11:45:40)
> > [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >
> > >>> import kdeui
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/kdeui.py", line 67, in ?
> >     import libkdeuic
> > ImportError: libkdefxcmodule.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
>
> file
>
> > or directory
>
> objdump and ldd tell me that libkdeuicmodule.so is linked to
> libkdefxcmodule.so. But my runtime linker isn't configured to search
> in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ so it can't find libkdefxcmodule.so.
>
> Does Mdk 9.2 really have /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ in ld.config?
>
> Couple of solutions:
>
> 1) modify ld.config. (=> makes packaging tricker)
>
> 2) modify the kde*.py files to import the library dependancies first. (make
> kdeui.py import kdefx, and let python load libkdefxcmodule.so directly).
>
> 3) modify the kde*.py to twiddle the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment var with
> the extra search path. (=> is LD_LIBRARY_PATH linux specific?)
>
> If Mandrake 10 is the odd one out here and all of the other distros
> have /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ in their ld.config, then 1) is
> probably the winner.

Shouldn't this be handled by the build system using rpath?

Phil