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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jul 10 09:25:51 CEST 2005

David Abrahams wrote:

Not entirely. By extending Modules/Setup

You mean http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Modules/Setup.dist?view=markup ?

I mean Modules/Setup. It is generated from Modules/Setup.dist (plus some additional information) in the build process.

I contend that either:

a. Anyone making that sort of extension with a C++ module should explicitly request --with-cxx, or b. The python build system should automatically detect that --with-cxx is needed based on the presence of C++ extension modules. Frankly I think b. would require an impractical amount of work and, speaking as an author of C++ extension modules, I don't think a. is much of a burden to impose.

It is the burden of change. Contributions are welcome.

However, you will find that with a), people will still pass --with-cxx, because they tend to "enable" all features they can find.

I personally could accept --with-cxx and ccpython.cc to be removed again, but I'm uncertain whether that may break distutils in some way.

Regards, Martin

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