Re: How to enable Python3 for python-freecontact

[Lumin <cdluminate@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

> Is there any way to have different library sections in setup.py
> to accomplish version specific libraries linked?


-            libraries = ['freecontact', 'boost_python'])]
+            libraries = ['freecontact', 'boost_python-py36'])]


This hack fixes the python 3.6 .so linkage.
I'm not sure whether there is a better way to workaround this,
but the following solution works fine


-            libraries = ['freecontact', 'boost_python'])]
+            libraries = ['freecontact', 'boost_python-py%d%d'%(sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1])])]


works for all python versions, i.e. 2.7, 3.6, 3.7 .

BTW, Please check you boost-python version:

│ 
│ /t/x/python-freecontact ❯❯❯ dpkg -L libboost-python1.62.0 
│ /.
│ /usr
│ /usr/lib
│ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
│ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py27.so.1.62.0
│ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py36.so.1.62.0
│ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_python-py37.so.1.62.0
│ /usr/share
│ /usr/share/doc
│ /usr/share/doc/libboost-python1.62.0
│ /usr/share/doc/libboost-python1.62.0/changelog.Debian.gz
│ /usr/share/doc/libboost-python1.62.0/copyright
│ /usr/share/lintian
│ /usr/share/lintian/overrides
│ /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libboost-python1.62.0
│ /t/x/python-freecontact ❯❯❯ apt list libboost-python1.62.0
│ Listing... Done
│ libboost-python1.62.0/unstable,unstable,now 1.62.0+dfsg-6 amd64 [installed,automatic]
│