Re: PL/Python build

Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

From: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-05-09T23:02:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > 
> > > OK, I have loaded PL/Python into CVS.  The problem is that the Makefile
> > > does not work with our build system.  It assumes someone is
> > > hand-configuring the Makefile for python versions and paths.
> > 
> > Might be rather complex.  I don't want more of the third party generated
> > makefiles in our build system because it messes up many things.  As long
> > as it's documented how to build it we can work with it for now.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington