[Python-Dev] Linux Python linking with G++? (original) (raw)
"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jul 8 07:24:32 CEST 2005
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David Abrahams wrote:
configure thinks that using CXX for linking is necessary if compiling a program using CXX and linking it using CC fails.
That might be the right thing to do for some programs, but AFAICT that's the wrong logic to use for Python.
Why do you say that? Python compiles Modules/ccpython.cc as the main function, using the C++ compiler, and then tries to link it somehow. On some systems (including some Linux installations), linking will fail if linking is done using gcc (instead of g++). So we must link using g++, or else it won't link at all.
Regards, Martin
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