Re: Package for multiple Python versions

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>, 2011-09-11, 01:37:
> I also see that we link against libpython which should not be done, 
> according to Debian Python Policy 2.1. But this is what cmake's 
> FindPythonLibrary.cmake find. Is there some generic way to change this?

I don't think there's any sane way. If you don't mind a bit on insanity 
;) this is what I did in one of my packages (after running cmake):

find . -name 'link.txt' -exec sed -i -e 's/ -lpython[0-9.]\+ / /g'

There are other problems with cmake Python support:
http://bugs.debian.org/580503

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Jakub Wilk