[Python-Dev] Linux Python linking with G++? (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Jul 7 16:28:15 CEST 2005


Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> writes:

David Abrahams wrote:

Apparently Python on some linux distros is being linked by g++ rather than gcc, resulting in the C++ runtime library being linked into Python; this has bad consequences for compatibility between C++ extension modules and Pythons that have been built with different versions of GCC. Is this behavior intentional? Configure with --without-cxx to not use g++. Since there is an option in configure, I assume it is intentional.

O-kay... any idea what the rationale for this decision might be?

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