Hi, if you compile modules under /usr/src the distutils package get fooled because it checks if your path starts with the exec_prefix (/usr) and then tries to use /usr/lib instead of "." as a library path. The following patch fixes this bug.
Alex
diff -urNad python2.5-2.5~c1~/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
python2.5-2.5~c1/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
--- python2.5-2.5~c1~/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py 2006-09-16
16:58:32.000000000 +0200
+++ python2.5-2.5~c1/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py 2006-09-16
16:58:44.245675500 +0200
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
if sys.platform[:6] == 'cygwin' or sys.platform[:6] == 'atheos' or \
(sys.platform.startswith('linux') and
sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')):
- if string.find(sys.executable, sys.exec_prefix) != -1:
+ if sys.executable.startswith(os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, 'bin')):
# building third party extensions
self.library_dirs.append(os.path.join(sys.prefix, "lib",
"python" +
get_python_version(),
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