[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from? (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:38:02 -0500 

TR> Am I out to lunch on the idea that the logic should be in
TR> Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py where the -R is added?

BAW> That's what Skip checked in but only for Python 2.3 it seems.  I'm
BAW> a little confused now about what should be ported from 2.2.2 to
BAW> 2.3, but maybe I'm still foggied headed from my cold.

I thought this was only a 2.3 thing. I just tried on the release22_maint CVS branch. The bsddb module compiled and linked fine, but I don't know why. Oh, wait a minute... The release22_maint branch doesn't have the bsddb bells and whistles I added to setup.py a couple months ago. Consequently, it's picking up the 1.85 version of the include file and library (which, I will remind people has known breakage).

Should I backport those changes? I think what's in 2.3's setup.py is much more robust, but if people have been getting Berkeley DB 1.85 libraries in 2.2.1 and don't get a clean compile in 2.2.2 without editing setup.py because 1.85 is all they have available, that might be construed as "more than a bugfix".

Let me know what you want to do in this regard Guido.

Skip