[issue5674] distutils fails to find Linux libs (lib.....so.n)

2009-04-04 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: Are you sure it isn't your Fedora installation that has the problem? My understanding is that the linker name (the libxxx.so name) should exist and be a symbolic link to the most recent soname (libxxx.N). So I think distutils is doing

[issue5674] distutils fails to find Linux libs (lib.....so.n)

2009-04-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: I agree with David. The .so name must exist; if it doesn't, your installation does indeed lack the necessary prerequisite. Closing as invalid. -- nosy: +loewis resolution: - invalid status: open - closed

[issue5674] distutils fails to find Linux libs (lib.....so.n)

2009-04-02 Thread Jim Garrison
New submission from Jim Garrison jgarri...@troux.com: Trying to build 3.1a1 on Fedora 9, the following extensions get skipped even though the requisite packages are installed _dbm _gdbm _hashlib _sqlite3 _ssl bz2