Re: [pygame] Compiling pygame on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric JPGE not found

[Christopher Arndt <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28.01.2012 21:52, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> config_unix.py checks what libraries are present to determine which
> Pygame modules are built. Otherwise, yes, the linker can find the
> libraries. The ldconfig program lists the shared libraries recognized by
> the run-time linker. So that could replace directory searches.

Here's some code to read the output of ldconfig. I have no idea though
how portable that is.

Chris

# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import re
import subprocess

ldrx = re.compile(r'^\s+(.*?)\s+\((.*?)\)\s+=>\s+(.*)$')

def read_ldcache():
    """Parse output of 'ldconfig -p' and return a dict with library file names
    as keys and a tuple of (path, type) as values.

    """
    output = subprocess.check_output(['/sbin/ldconfig', '--print-cache'],
        env=dict(LC_ALL='C'))

    ldcache = dict()

    for line in output.splitlines()[1:]:
        match = ldrx.match(line)

        if match:
            lib, type_, path = match.groups()
            ldcache[lib] = (path, type_)

    return ldcache

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import pprint
    pprint.pprint(read_ldcache())