From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C51F665.5000305@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100729213219.GD13267@adacore.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>> The bottom line, IMO, is that you python install is simply broken.
>> It works fine with gdb-7.1 (dynamically linked)...
>
> If it works with 7.1, I think it was by accident (IMO).
>
>> Um, no, it appears to be linked statically.
>> What about yours (the 2.7 version that you built)?
>
> Exactly what I thought. Mine shows a dynamic dependency on libpython.so.
>
> I really think that the problem is with your Python install. If you want
> to be able to link dynamically with your python install, you'll have to
> add a link to libpython.so in your lib/python-<version>/config directory.
> The problem is that your python binary was built without --enable-shared
> and thus Python itself believes that there is no libpython.so. And
> because of that, it is telling the GDB configure to use the static
> archive. The Ubuntu python install is equally broken (IMO), but it
> happens to work because there is a copy of the the libpython.so in
> the config/ directory as well.
>
OK, I'm on the same page. Thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 21:45 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
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 [this message]
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