Bug 12064

Summary: RFE: Build python shared library
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: andrew.chatham
Component: pythonAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
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Version: 6.2Keywords: FutureFeature
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URL: http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.30
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Description andrew.chatham 2000-06-10 19:54:11 UTC 
The official Python distribution does not build a shared library on Unices,
though it's pretty easy to do on Linux (see the URL). Just un-ar the static
library and relink it. It'd make embedding Python a lot nicer (and smaller,
too). I'm currently working on putting it in Guppi. It's too bad the
official distribution doesn't include a shared library, but Debian does
already, and I think it'd be useful if Red Hat did too.
Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-01-27 02:02:49 UTC 
un-aring and relinking isn't enough - the code isn't -fPIC code so it does not
work on some architectures.
Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2001-01-27 02:44:23 UTC 
*** Bug 16219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***