Error with Python 2.3 as a shared Library

Re: Error with Python 2.3 as a shared Library

You need to add /whatever/lib to the path for searching .so files.
If you are root, normally you may edit /etc/ld.so.conf to add the path permanently.
If you are not root, you can set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH :

for sh: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH =/whatever/lib
for csh: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /whatever/lib

or simply use the env command:

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH =/whatever/lib python

Note that this is nothing special to python but normal behaviour of Linux or Linux like operating systems including many Unices.

Regards,
Kiyo

"Francisco Miguel Montenegro Montes" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:mailman.10 60831041.1705.p [email protected] ...[color=blue]
> Hi, perhaps some of you can help me...
>
> I'm installing Python 2.3 (in Linux RedHat 8.0) and I need to build it
> like a shared library, because I want to interact
> Python with PostgreSQL. Following the README instructions, I try:
>
> ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/whatever (I'm not root of my
> system, so I can't use /usr/local/)
> make
> make install
>
> it seems to be ok, without errors. And when I try :
>
> /whatever/bin/python
>
> it says:
>
> whatever/bin/python error while loading shared libraries:
> libpython2.3.so .1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
> but this library (libpython2.3.s o.1.0 ) is in the whatever/lib directory.
>
> What's wrong? Is it something related to the path? How can I tell python
> where the library is? Or is it not the problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
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