Re: PL/Python build

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-09T23:04:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > I disabled the plPython Makefile until we can deal with it:
> > 
> > 	$ gmake
> > 	Disabled until merged into our Makefile system, bjm 2001-05-09
> 
> One of the small problems of pl/python is going to similar to pl/perl...
> many linux distro's don't come with a shared object library for python,
> but come w/a static library only.
> 
> pl/python will work w/a static library (if you uncomment the lines in the
> makefile to link all the modules against it directly); we can add a line
> to the faq about where packages, if any, are for python.so.

Gee, we really only just got PL/Perl working.  Hopefully we can use the
same method for Python.

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