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Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>
- Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman at br dot ibm dot com>, "gdb-patches\ at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:15:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python
- References: <4C4E1E0F.80309@vmware.com> <1280244591.2661.104.camel@hactar> <4C4F7A39.9030606@vmware.com>
Michael> So this problem shows up because we've switched to static linking
Michael> (at least for configure).
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.
Michael> Isn't this problem showing up for anyone else? It seems to me that
Michael> it will bite anybody who's using a binary release of these versions.
Jan reports that 7.2 builds ok on RHEL 5 against the system python.
At least those of us at Red Hat haven't hit this problem since we use
the system python, not the one you are using.
Tom