From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>,
"gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C506128.9040108@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m339v3oa55.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
> Michael> So this problem shows up because we've switched to static linking
> Michael> (at least for configure).
>
> I wonder why that changed.
Me too.
> Does your Python come with dynamic libraries?
Yep.
> Did 7.1 choose those instead?
Yep.
> AFAIK we didn't intentionally make any change to prefer static libraries --
That's odd, because it seems like a non-trivial change was required.
> I think that would be a bad decision.
Me too.
Both 7.1 and 7.2 use "ac_fn_c_try_link", which is locally defined in
configure. In configure.ac, it appears to be AC_TRY_LIBPYTHON.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 23:45 Michael Snyder
2010-07-27 15:30 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2010-07-27 17:17 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-27 17:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-07-28 0:30 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 16:15 ` Tom Tromey
2010-07-28 16:56 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2010-07-28 17:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 17:27 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 17:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 17:59 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 18:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 18:10 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 18:15 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 19:59 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 21:32 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 18:19 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 18:23 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 18:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 19:58 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 20:02 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 20:07 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 20:21 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-28 21:36 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-28 22:56 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-29 15:28 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-29 17:37 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-29 17:52 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-29 18:41 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-29 18:49 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-29 19:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-29 19:31 ` Michael Snyder
2010-07-29 21:32 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-07-29 21:45 ` Michael Snyder
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