[MacPorts] #17998: Linking to Python 2.5 framework is broken due to broken symlinks

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#17998: Linking to Python 2.5 framework is broken due to broken symlinks
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 Reporter:  evert.rol@…                     |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                          |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                          |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                            
Component:  ports                           |     Version:  1.6.0                                
 Keywords:  python boost framework symlink  |        Port:  python25                             
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 Linking to
 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a
 fails, because the file is a broken symlink (as an aside, the file
 identifies as a dynamically linked shared library, not a static one; is
 that a naming problem?).

 This is a result of libpython2.5.a being a symlink to ../../../Python,
 thereby crossing a symlinked directory:
 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5
 points to /opt/local/lib/python2.5. Traversing this symlinked directory
 manually is no problem, but the symlinked file is broken.
 Comparing to the system installed variant, the symlinked directory is the
 other way around:

 {{{
 ls -l  /usr/lib/
 lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        75  9 Nov  2007 python2.5 ->
 ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5
 }}}

 Manually fixing this now results in proper linking with libpython2.5 (I
 also added a libpython2.5.dylib in the config/ directory, which is simply
 a copy of libpython2.5.a).
 The directory structure now reads

 {{{
 ls -l /opt/local/lib
 lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin        66 14 Jan 18:03 python2.5 ->
 ../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/
 ls -l
 /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/config
 total 208
 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin     15 14 Jan 18:02 libpython2.5.a ->
 ../../../Python
 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin     15 14 Jan 18:02 libpython2.5.dylib ->
 ../../../Python

 }}}


 This ticket originated from ticket [/ticket/17975 #17975]

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