I copied the .so and .so.0 files from bullet to /usr/lib, re-ran the linking command manually (last bit above) and it's now working! Sorry for clogging up the bugs section, I'm sure I did something wrong in providing the library path to setup.py.
I copied the .so and .so.0 files from bullet to /usr/lib, re-ran the linking command manually (last bit above) and it's now working! Sorry for clogging up the bugs section, I'm sure I did something wrong in providing the library path to setup.py.