On 03/12/2006, at 1:41 PM, Eric Brunson wrote:
Can you explain properly what that one line is achieving.
The change is causing mod_python to be linked with the same libs that
python was when it was built, in the absence of the Makefile.
If you have the python-dev package installed which does include the
Makefile,
does it work without requiring your fiddle?
I am not even sure why the Makefile would be missing because to even
compile
mod_python requires the Python header files be available which generally
implies that the 'config' directory in the Python library directory
would be
present, including the Makefile.
It seems to me a bit like this is a fiddle to workaround that your
Python installation
is incomplete or broken. Note that the list of libraries to link is
potentially not the
only thing that is obtained from the Makefile so not having it could
cause other
problems. So doing a fiddle to workaround it not being there seems
wrong to me.
Why is the Makefile not present in the first place?
Graham
