[pylucene-dev] building PyLucene in script; diffs between Python 2.5 and 2.4?

[Bill Janssen]

>    - The LFLAGS for linux should include -ljvm and -L<dir to libjvm.so>
>      I've seen that one some systems (at least Gentoo), failure to include
>      on the link line is going to cause it to fail startup because the
>      dynamic linker is not going to find the library.
>      The same applies for -R/-rpath, it should include the path to libjvm.so.
>      The latest JCC setup.py in trunk has that change [1].

OK, thanks.  I'll add that.

>    - This "setenv PYTHONPATH ./jcc/build/lib.*/jcc" strikes me as doubly
>      suspicious:
>        . the use of * is probably not going to work as expected if there is
>          more than one match

But there won't be; the path that matches will be platform-specific,
created by the build of jcc.

>        . setting PYTHONPATH has some specific meaning to Python already, it
>          seems that you mean to use it differently here; yes, you are
>          unsetting it later, but what if that doesn't happen, for some buggy
>          reason ?

Actually, I set PYTHONPATH purposely so that code in the jcc module
can find the submodules it references.  I just re-use that variable to
locate the __init__.py file.

Bill