Re: Re: PL/Python build

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mark Hollomon wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 May 2001 19:02, Joel Burton wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Be careful. That will only work if the static library contains relocatable 
> code so that the entire resulting library 'plpython.so' can be loaded 
> dynamically. From what I can tell, this is true on Linux, but not on say HPUX.
> _That_ was the sticky point with pl/perl.

Erm, well, I probably should confess that I know nothing whatsoever about
HPUX; I'm a pretty bright boy, but mostly limited to Linux and
FreeBSD. So, please, take most of my comments with that important grain.

Mark -- Would it be possible to use a static python.a to create plpython,
w/o trying to link it to the modules that author includes (hashing, etc),
to create a core-python-only plpython?

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