Maintenance patch. Haven't touched this in a while, and apparently

something changed on my workstation, because native modules would
no longer import. See pymex.c for more details.

Makefile

@@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ MATLAB_SCRIPT ?= matlab
 TMW_ROOT ?= $(shell ${MATLAB_SCRIPT} -e | grep MATLAB= | sed s/^MATLAB=//)
 
 CFLAGS=$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --cflags)
-CLIBS=$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --libs)
-LDFLAGS=$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --ldflags) -L$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --prefix)/lib
+CLIBS=
+#CLIBS=$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --libs)
+LDFLAGS=$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --ldflags)
+#-L$(shell ${PYTHON}-config --prefix)/lib
+
+#CFLAGS=%CFLAGS%
+#CLIBS=%CLIBS%
+#LDFLAGS=%LDFLAGS%
 
 BUILDBRANCH = $(shell git branch --no-color | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/')
 ifeq ($(BUILDBRANCH),)
@@ -44,11 +50,11 @@ ${TARGET}: pymex.c sharedfuncs.c commands.c *module.c pymex.h .debug_${DEBUG}
 	@rm -f .debug_0
 	@touch .debug_1
 
-test: ${TARGET} *.py
+test: $(TARGET) *.py
 	${MATLAB_SCRIPT} -nojvm -nodisplay \
 	-r "pyimport nose; exit(unpy(~nose.run()));"
 
-.PHONY: clean
+.PHONY: clean test
 
 clean:
 	rm -f .debug_* pymex.mex*

pymex.c

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
    or do `c = pymex` for a list. */
 #include "pymex.h"
 #include <mex.h>
+#include <dlfcn.h>
 #define XMACRO_DEFS "commands.c"
 
 /* Macros used during x-macro expansion. */
@@ -68,6 +69,21 @@ static void ExitFcn(void) {
 
 void mexFunction(int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[], int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[]) {
   if (!Py_IsInitialized()) {
+    /* 
+       This dlopen is currently needed because I have
+       recently been unable to import python shared 
+       library modules (like, say, numpy). I spent half
+       a day staring at ld's manpage and trying various
+       combinations to no avail. I even managed to compile
+       against the static libpython2.6-pic.a and could
+       verify the presence and globalness of the symbols,
+       but could not determine a way to get the loaded
+       libraries to actually use them. 
+
+       Should probably make this line configurable in the
+       makefile... later.
+     */
+    dlopen("libpython2.6.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
     Py_Initialize();
     PYMEX_DEBUG("[python: initialized]\n");
     initmexmodule();

test_numpy.py

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from nose.tools import *
+from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
+
+def test_import():
+    import numpy