From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9056 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2010 17:20:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 9042 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2010 17:20:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:20:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B8E2BAB67; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:20:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qfLJg5X4paBa; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:20:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B0552BAB63; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AC22F58FA; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:20:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Tom Tromey Cc: Michael Snyder , Thiago Jung Bauermann , "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python Message-ID: <20100728172017.GK13267@adacore.com> References: <4C4E1E0F.80309@vmware.com> <1280244591.2661.104.camel@hactar> <4C4F7A39.9030606@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-07/txt/msg00487.txt.bz2 > I wonder why that changed. Does your Python come with dynamic > libraries? Did 7.1 choose those instead? AFAIK we didn't intentionally > make any change to prefer static libraries -- I think that would be a > bad decision. Perhaps the linker is not finding the python shared library? I think it should. One thing we should be aware of is that it seems that the Python developers themselves made the static libpython the default, and users building python need to explicitly request the dynamic libpython for it to be built. Maybe python-config.py is skewed that way too (meaning, lack of testing with the dynamic version of libpython). -- Joel