[CMake] FindPythonLibs

[William A. Hoffman]

At 03:36 PM 2/22/2006, James Bigler wrote:
>>CMake should prefer the shared versions of libraries.   Is there a:
>>/usr/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.so on your machine?
>
>No.  I'm using Suse 9.3, GCC 3.3.5, CMake 2.2-patch 3, SWIG version 1.3.21, and python 2.4.
>
>ls -l /usr/lib/python2.4/config/
>total 1682
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    4952 2005-03-22 14:51 ccpython.o
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1777 2005-03-22 14:51 config.c
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1191 2005-03-22 14:51 config.c.in
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    7122 2005-03-22 14:51 install-sh*
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1550468 2005-03-22 14:51 libpython2.4.a
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   35789 2005-03-22 14:51 Makefile
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   32934 2005-03-22 14:51 Makefile.pre
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   32455 2005-03-22 14:51 Makefile.pre.in
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    7430 2005-03-22 14:51 makesetup*
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root   17394 2005-03-22 14:51 Setup
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root     368 2005-03-22 14:51 Setup.config
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root      41 2005-03-22 14:51 Setup.local
>
>>Since CMake uses -L, I am thinking there must not be a linkable .so in
>>the same directory as the .a.  Where is your shared version of python located?
>
>ls -l /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so*
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 2006-01-13 12:18 /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so -> libpython2.4.so.1.0
>
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1134954 2005-03-22 14:51 /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0

Is this a standard install?   On most systems the shared library would also be in the config directory,
and would be the preferred one to use.   

-Bill