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

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>, 2010-09-30, 23:59:
> > > 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)...

Quoting doc/release/1.4.0-notes.rst:

In 1.3.0, we started putting portable C math routines in npymath 
library, so that people can use those to write portable extensions. 
Unfortunately, it was not possible to easily link against this library: 
in 1.4.0, support has been added to numpy.distutils so that 3rd party 
can reuse this library.

> From the bug report, I can only infer that scipy new version (0.8.0) 
> doesn't build without libnpymath.a .

As far as I understand it, the library is independent of python, so I'd 
just ship it directly in /usr/lib/.

--
Jakub Wilk

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