On 07.02.2016 13:38, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 00:25:57 -0800
"Robert T. McGibbon" <rmcgi...@gmail.com> wrote:
What are Debian/Ubuntu doing in distutils so that extensions don't link
to libpython by default?
I don't know exactly, but one way to reproduce this is simply to build the
interpreter without `--enable-shared`.
See https://bugs.python.org/issue21536. It would be nice if you could
lobby for this issue to be resolved... (though that would only be for
3.6, presumably)
I don't know that their reasons are, but I presume that the Debian
maintainers have a well-considered reason for this design.
Actually, shared library builds can be noticeably slower. I did
measurements some time ago, and the results are:
- shared builds are 5-10% slower on x86
- they can be up to 30% slower on some ARM CPUs!
yes, that's the reason why the python executable is built statically against the
libpython library.
Matthias
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