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<chapter id="installation">
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<indexterm><primary>libperl</primary></indexterm>
<filename>libperl</filename> library must be a shared library
also on most platforms. This appears to be the default in
- recent Perl versions, but it was not in earlier versions, and in
- general it is the choice of whomever installed Perl at your
- site.
+ recent <productname>Perl</productname> versions, but it was not
+ in earlier versions, and in general it is the choice of whomever
+ installed Perl at your site.
</para>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
To build the PL/Python server programming language, you need a
- Python installation, including the header files. Since
- PL/Python will be a shared library, the
- <indexterm><primary>libpython</primary></indexterm>
- <filename>libpython</filename> library must be a shared library
- also on most platforms. This is not the case in a default
- Python installation.
+ <productname>Python</productname> installation with the header
+ files and the distutils module. The distutils module is
+ included by default with <productname>Python</productname> 1.6
+ and later; users of earlier versions of
+ <productname>Python</productname> will need to install it.
</para>
<para>
- If after building and installing you have a file called
+ Since PL/Python will be a shared library, the
+ <indexterm><primary>libpython</primary></indexterm>
+ <filename>libpython</filename> library must be a shared library
+ also on most platforms. This is not the case in a default
+ <productname>Python</productname> installation. If after
+ building and installing you have a file called
<filename>plpython.so</filename> (possibly a different
extension), then everything went well. Otherwise you should
have seen a notice like this flying by:
*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation. Refer to
*** the documentation for details.
</screen>
- That means you have to rebuild (part of) your Python
- installation to supply this shared library.
+ That means you have to rebuild (part of) your
+ <productname>Python</productname> installation to supply this
+ shared library.
</para>
<para>
- If you have problems, run Python 2.3 or later's configure using the
- <literal>--enable-shared</> flag. On some operating systems you
- don't have to build a shared library, but you will have
- to convince the <productname>PostgreSQL</> build system of this.
- Consult the <filename>Makefile</filename> in the
- <filename>src/pl/plpython</filename> directory for details.
+ If you have problems, run <productname>Python</> 2.3 or later's
+ configure using the <literal>--enable-shared</> flag. On some
+ operating systems you don't have to build a shared library, but
+ you will have to convince the <productname>PostgreSQL</> build
+ system of this. Consult the <filename>Makefile</filename> in
+ the <filename>src/pl/plpython</filename> directory for details.
</para>
</listitem>