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List:       freebsd-ports
Subject:    Re: Silly question regarding python
From:       Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <haering_linux () gmx ! de>
Date:       2003-01-03 20:39:35
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* AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> [2003-01-03 14:35 -0500]:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:28:47PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> >On Fri 2003-01-03 (13:16), AlanE wrote:
> >> No. It is an elf static library. That's the one your configure script is
> >> looking at.
> >> 
> >> I'll get back to this later (in a day or two).
> >
> >Thanks Alan.  I ran into some problems a few days ago porting a few
> >programs which expect there to by a dynamic libpython2.2.so.  It seems
> >Debian includes it - no idea if it's a python default to install it.
> 
> Can you help get this guy on track? Zope 2.5.1 requires python 2.1, and it
> looks like part of of "zorp" is "zope".

No, ZORP only needs the extclass part of ZOPE, which might even be
available as a separate download somewhere. Otherwise, get a ZOPE source
tree and build only this part there.

> Ewww. This is beyond my scope as maintainer, I'm afraid.

So let me help you :-)

You can build Python as a shared library in pre-2.3 versions (I didn't
try this on FreeBSD yet, though).

All you need to do is read the FAQ, especially item 3.30:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq03.030.htp

Gerhard
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