Another try at making plpython autoconfiguration work correctly. Use a

-L spec rather than assuming libpython is in the standard search path
(this returns to the way 7.4 did it).  But check the distutils output
to see if it looks like Python has built a shared library, and if so
link with that instead of the probably-not-shared library found in
configdir.

config/python.m4

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Autoconf macros for configuring the build of Python extension modules
 #
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/config/python.m4,v 1.10 2004/10/10 19:07:52 tgl Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/config/python.m4,v 1.11 2004/10/11 19:32:16 tgl Exp $
 #
 
 # PGAC_PATH_PYTHON
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ fi
 
 # _PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_DIRS
 # -----------------------
-# Determine the name of various directory of a given Python installation.
+# Determine the name of various directories of a given Python installation.
 AC_DEFUN([_PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_DIRS],
 [AC_REQUIRE([PGAC_PATH_PYTHON])
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Python distutils module])
@@ -44,13 +44,37 @@ AC_MSG_RESULT([$python_configdir])
 
 # PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_EMBED_SETUP
 # -----------------------------
+#
+# Note: selecting libpython from python_configdir works in all Python
+# releases, but it generally finds a non-shared library, which means
+# that we are binding the python interpreter right into libplpython.so.
+# In Python 2.3 and up there should be a shared library available in
+# the main library location.
 AC_DEFUN([PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_EMBED_SETUP],
 [AC_REQUIRE([_PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_DIRS])
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([how to link an embedded Python application])
 
-python_libspec=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print '-lpython${python_version} '+string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBS','LIBC','LIBM','LOCALMODLIBS','BASEMODLIBS')))"`
+python_libdir=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBDIR')))"`
+python_ldlibrary=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LDLIBRARY')))"`
+python_so=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('SO')))"`
+ldlibrary=`echo "${python_ldlibrary}" | sed "s/${python_so}$//"`
+
+if test x"${python_libdir}" != x"" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"${ldlibrary}"
+then
+	# New way: use the official shared library
+	ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed "s/^lib//"`
+	python_libspec="-L${python_libdir} -l${ldlibrary}"
+else
+	# Old way: use libpython from python_configdir
+	python_libdir="${python_configdir}"
+	python_libspec="-L${python_libdir} -lpython${python_version}"
+fi
+
+python_additional_libs=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBS','LIBC','LIBM','LOCALMODLIBS','BASEMODLIBS')))"`
 
-AC_MSG_RESULT([${python_libspec}])
+AC_MSG_RESULT([${python_libspec} ${python_additional_libs}])
 
+AC_SUBST(python_libdir)[]dnl
 AC_SUBST(python_libspec)[]dnl
+AC_SUBST(python_additional_libs)[]dnl
 ])# PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_EMBED_SETUP

configure

@@ -4249,10 +4249,26 @@ echo "${ECHO_T}$python_configdir" >&6
 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking how to link an embedded Python application" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking how to link an embedded Python application... $ECHO_C" >&6
 
-python_libspec=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print '-lpython${python_version} '+string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBS','LIBC','LIBM','LOCALMODLIBS','BASEMODLIBS')))"`
+python_libdir=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBDIR')))"`
+python_ldlibrary=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LDLIBRARY')))"`
+python_so=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('SO')))"`
+ldlibrary=`echo "${python_ldlibrary}" | sed "s/${python_so}$//"`
 
-echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: ${python_libspec}" >&5
-echo "${ECHO_T}${python_libspec}" >&6
+if test x"${python_libdir}" != x"" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"${ldlibrary}"
+then
+	# New way: use the official shared library
+	ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed "s/^lib//"`
+	python_libspec="-L${python_libdir} -l${ldlibrary}"
+else
+	# Old way: use libpython from python_configdir
+	python_libdir="${python_configdir}"
+	python_libspec="-L${python_libdir} -lpython${python_version}"
+fi
+
+python_additional_libs=`${PYTHON} -c "import distutils.sysconfig,string; print string.join(filter(None,distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBS','LIBC','LIBM','LOCALMODLIBS','BASEMODLIBS')))"`
+
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: ${python_libspec} ${python_additional_libs}" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}${python_libspec} ${python_additional_libs}" >&6
 
 
 fi
@@ -18893,7 +18909,9 @@ s,@PYTHON@,$PYTHON,;t t
 s,@python_version@,$python_version,;t t
 s,@python_configdir@,$python_configdir,;t t
 s,@python_includespec@,$python_includespec,;t t
+s,@python_libdir@,$python_libdir,;t t
 s,@python_libspec@,$python_libspec,;t t
+s,@python_additional_libs@,$python_additional_libs,;t t
 s,@LIBOBJS@,$LIBOBJS,;t t
 s,@HAVE_IPV6@,$HAVE_IPV6,;t t
 s,@acx_pthread_config@,$acx_pthread_config,;t t

src/Makefile.global.in

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*-makefile-*-
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.200 2004/10/06 15:14:13 momjian Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.201 2004/10/11 19:32:19 tgl Exp $
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # All PostgreSQL makefiles include this file and use the variables it sets,
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ enable_debug	= @enable_debug@
 enable_thread_safety	= @enable_thread_safety@
 
 python_includespec	= @python_includespec@
+python_libdir		= @python_libdir@
 python_libspec		= @python_libspec@
+python_additional_libs	= @python_additional_libs@
 python_configdir	= @python_configdir@
 python_version		= @python_version@
 

src/pl/plpython/Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plpython/Makefile,v 1.16 2004/10/10 19:07:55 tgl Exp $
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/pl/plpython/Makefile,v 1.17 2004/10/11 19:32:19 tgl Exp $
 
 subdir = src/pl/plpython
 top_builddir = ../../..
@@ -6,24 +6,26 @@ include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
 
 
 # On some platforms we can only build PL/Python if libpython is a
-# shared library.  Since there is no official way to determine this,
-# we see if there is a file that is named like a shared library.
-ifneq (,$(wildcard $(python_configdir)/libpython*$(DLSUFFIX)*))
+# shared library.  Since there is no official way to determine this
+# (at least not in pre-2.3 Python), we see if there is a file that is
+# named like a shared library.
+ifneq (,$(wildcard $(python_libdir)/libpython*$(DLSUFFIX)*))
 shared_libpython = yes
 endif
 
 # Windows needs to convert backslashed paths to normal slashes,
-# and we have to remove -lpython from libspec since we are building our own
+# and we have to remove -lpython from the link since we are building our own
 ifeq ($(PORTNAME), win32)
 shared_libpython = yes
 python_includespec := $(subst \,/,$(python_includespec))
-python_libspec := $(subst -lpython$(python_version),,$(python_libspec))
+override python_libspec :=
 endif
 
 # Darwin (OS X) has its own ideas about how to do this.
 ifeq ($(PORTNAME), darwin)
 shared_libpython = yes
 override python_libspec := -framework Python
+override python_additional_libs :=
 endif
 
 # If we don't have a shared library and the platform doesn't allow it
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ python${pytverstr}.def: $(WD)/system32/python${pytverstr}.dll
 endif
 
 
-SHLIB_LINK = $(BE_DLLLIBS) $(python_libspec)
+SHLIB_LINK = $(BE_DLLLIBS) $(python_libspec) $(python_additional_libs)
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/src/Makefile.shlib