Python patch to install a shared library

[Tim Middleton]

On Friday 05 March 2004 05:18, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
> Please test this patch on your platform:
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/pyshared.diff

It's been quite a while since i tried BUILD_SHARED on a -CURRENT box (I had 
problems with it last time I tried... quite a long time ago, if i recall 
correctly). I always BUILD_SHARED on -STABLE boxes these days though, and it 
works great.

I've built with this patch on the -CURRENT box i'm now typing on (ordinary 
i386), and it appears to be working nicely so far. Looks good to me.

I wonder if the BUILD_SHARED knob should not be kept though. It seems this 
patched port installs static as bin/python[2.3] ... along with 
bin/python-shared[2.3]. But people who are used to BUILD_SHARED probably 
won't expect bin/python now to be a non-shared version, which they then will 
have to overwrite with the shared version manually. 

Perhaps if BUILD_SHARED is specified then bin/python will be the shared 
binary; and bin/python-static[2.3] would also be placed. But this is starting 
to get confusing... maybe it should always install python-static and 
python-shared ... and the knob just control which is copied to plain 
bin/python. 

Well, just my observations anyhow. Doesn't really matter to me. 

Nice work. 

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