[MODPYTHON-21] Enable linking to shared python library

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.10, 3.1.3, 3.2.7
• Component/s: core
• Environment: Slackware Linux-10.0 / Apache-2.0.53 / Python-2.3
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Damjan Georgievski
• Created: 17/Feb/05 23:27
• Updated: 22/Oct/05 16:03

Description

I'd suggest to tweak the ./configure script, so that it tries to link to the python dynamic library first, and only if it fails to link the static. The only change wuld be to first try to link without the '-L/usr/lib/python2.3/config' option.

A dynamically linked mod_python would get the benefit of always beeing the same version with the installed Python when minor versions are upgraded on the system. I've done this always and I've never had problems.