[bug#36623] [PATCH] gnu: gdal: add python support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> skribis:

> validating RUNPATH of 6 binaries in 
> "/gnu/store/q9sb0wv41ig429f1m1xspg22xm8pwpwh-gdal-2.2.4/lib"...
> /gnu/store/q9sb0wv41ig429f1m1xspg22xm8pwpwh-gdal-2.2.4/lib/python3.7/site-packages/osgeo/_gdal.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so:
>  error: depends on 'libgdal.so.20', which cannot be found in RUNPATH 
> ("/gnu/store/b7fqhszxl02g6pfm3vw6b3cjz472qrly-python-3.7.0/lib" 
> "/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/lib" 
> "/gnu/store/4sqps8dczv3g7rwbdibfz6rf5jlk7w90-gcc-5.5.0-lib/lib" 
> "/gnu/store/4sqps8dczv3g7rwbdibfz6rf5jlk7w90-gcc-5.5.0-lib/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/5.5.0/../../..")

I’m not familiar with Cython so I don’t know how this was handled
before.  However, to me, it indicates that the resulting binaries are
unlikely to work.

Namely, Python would dlopen “_gdal.cython*.so”, and that would fail to
find ‘libgdal.so’.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.