Trouble compiling native code that depends on Python

[jbcpollak]

I've found that proto does include the native libraries necessary to build python native code, but it doesn't expose them. There are two problems I've identified so far:

1. the python-config binary is not exposed in bin or shims. I am working around that like this:

ln -s ~/.proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install/bin/python3-config ~/.proto/bin/python-config

For build systems that us the pkg-config tool, the prefixes in the .pc files located in .proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install are wrong. They are just prefix=/install when they should be a correct absolute path.

I am working around that with this hack:

sed -i 's|prefix=/install|prefix=/home/.../.proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install|' ~/.proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install/lib/pkgconfig/python3.pc
sed -i 's|prefix=/install|prefix=/home/.../.proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install|' ~/.proto/tools/python/3.10.12/install/lib/pkgconfig/python3-embed.pc