Michael Haubenwallner added the comment: Well, they should not be identical, as they are for different use cases.
"pkg-config python" is to build an application containing a python interpreter (like python$EXE): + Link against libpython.so. Additionally, + re-export symbols from libpython.so for the python-modules (platform-specific). = This is similar to build against any other library, thus using 'pkg-config python'. "python-config" is to build a python-module (like build/lib.<platform>-<pyver>/*.so): + No need to link against libpython.so, instead + expect symbols from libpython.so to be available at runtime, platform specific either + as a list of symbols to import from "the main executable" (AIX), or + as undefined symbols at build-time (Linux, others), or = This is specific to python-modules, thus using 'python-config'. ---------- nosy: +haubi _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15590> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
