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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
