Python patch to install a shared library

[perky at i18n.org (Hye-Shik Chang)]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:37PM +0900, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Per requested by many people, I made a patch to make python port
> to install not only static library but also shared library and its
> interpreter frontend.  This obsoletes BUILD_SHARED option and the
> port doesn't build PIC binary or library even for amd64 and ia64
> anymore.  This means that you need to change linking with not static
> but shared library if you need to embed python into your shared
> library.
> 
> Please test this patch on your platform:
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/pyshared.diff
> 
> 

Just committed.

Thanks to John and Dima for helpful suggestions and thanks to Charles
and Tim for testing. :)


Hye-Shik