Re: [crossfire] Is the deposit bug on the bank PYò0script ever going to get fixed?

[Mark Wedel]

Robert Brockway wrote:

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      It a bit of a problem for libraries that have a lot of external files
     
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      that it depends on though (like python's /usr/lib/python*/ files),
     
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      What files are you thinking of?  They shoudn't rely on anything except 
     
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      other libs.  I just did a strings on /usr/lib/libpython on this box and 
     
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      it didn't reveal any dependencies.
     
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      If the libs really do rely on external files then keep a seperate copy 
     
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      of those as well.  A chroot may be best to keep everything in order in 
     
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      this case.
     
     
  Depending on how well the library was written, compatiblity, and so on, you 
can get cases that the library and header files are tied closely together.

  So if you compile against say python 2.1 library, dynamic linking with the 2.4 
library may not work (or could certainly get the case of not picking up the new 
feature or something).

  Likewise, linking against 2.4 and then using 2.3 at runtime is not guaranteed 
to work.