gdb/head build, --with-python=<path to working python> FAILs @ "no usable python found " ?

[PGNet Dev]

On 3/25/20 3:55 PM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
>>          export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.8-dev/lib"
>> (does this^ need to be rpath'd?  need to poke around in here ...)
> 
> If you can run python3.8, you probably already set things up correctly for that?

i 1st stumbled on this^ issue trying to run distro-pkg'd gdb in my pyenv.

it keeps insisting on hardcoded python pkg versions/paths that are the distro's default.  annoying :-/

rpath with

	export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.8-dev/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pyenv/versions/3.8-dev/lib"
	export LIBS="-lpython3.8"

is a better-safe-than-sorry choice; and shouldn't hurt


>> _does_ seem to get past the 'python unfound' problem, dropping me into the next issue ... which seems unrelated
> 
> Yeah. Unfortunately I have no idea about that error, hopefully someone
> else can comment.

thx.  i'll split off a new thread.