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Re: How to ship .a files in a python-support package?



Hi Bernd,

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 21:14, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
> On 09/30/2010 09:00 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> Hello,
>> background for this is: #596987
>>
>> I installed the libnpymath.a in
>> ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/*-packages/numpy/core/lib/libnpymath.a
>> (the same place there are several other .so files); they are copied in
>> debian/python-numpy/same_location but then .so files are moved in
>> /u/l/pyshared, but the .a is ignored and this not shipped in the
>> resulting .deb package.
>>
>> Is there a way to ship that libnpymath.a file? or just by hand (and in
>> this case, how)?
>
> What would the file be used for?
> Linking new modules statically with the library?

If only I know (I barely understand what a .a is for)... From the bug
report, I can only infer that scipy new version (0.8.0) doesn't build
without libnpymath.a .

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi


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