Hello, I am not sure exactly why, but this email and patch never got integrated.
It is now integrated into the SVN and will be part of version 3.0.2. Thank you for your contribution, Kern On Monday 22 December 2008 18:30:32 Bastian Friedrich wrote: > Hi, > > I have been busy with updating some OpenSUSE packages in the last days, > as OpenSUSE 11.1 has been released last week. Unfortunately, building > Bacula was not hassle-free. > > Bacula's "configure" has a manually coded section for python handling. > This section is not able to detect or link against the python > installation in OpenSUSE 11.1 for two reasons: > > configure looks for python versions 2.2 thru 2.5. OpenSUSE 11.1 brings > python 2.6 as well as a beta of python 3.0. > > a) The include path is not detected correctly (as python 2.6 is not > checked) > b) The library that bacula tries to link is "python"; OpenSUSE ships the > lib as "python2.6". > > Disclaimer: I am neither a autoconf nor a python expert, so my fixes for > these problems may well be wrong. > > a) is easily fixable by adding "python2.6" for the $ver variable that > configure checks. > b) python brings a "python-config" program that provides a "--includes" > as well as a "--libs" argument. If configure can find python-config, > it should use its results. > > Patch (for trunk's configure.in only; my autoconf is a different version > than yours, so please rebuild configure yourself :) attached. I have > NOT tested whether python support still works, but at least bacula > compiles well with the patch applied. As said, I am neither a Python > nor a autoconf expert, so you may want to regard the patch as a proof > of concept :) > > Best regards and season's greetings > Bastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
