On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:07:56AM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Christoph Ludwig wrote: > > Yes, but on ELF/Linux the default configuration should be --without-cxx > > in the first place. If the build instructions make it sufficiently clear > > that > > you should prefer this configuration whenever possible then this should be a > > non-issue on platforms like ELF/Linux. > > Some users will complain about this. Specifying --without-cxx also > causes configure not to look for a C++ compiler, meaning that distutils > won't know what the C++ compiler is, meaning that it will link extension > modules with the C compiler instead.
If I understood Dave Abraham's reply somewhere above in this thread correctly then you can build different C++ extension modules with different C++ compilers on ELF/Linux. (I don't have the time right now to actually try it, sorry.) There is no need to fix the C++ compiler as soon as python is built. If distutils builds C++ extensions with the C compiler then I consider this a bug in distutils because it is unlikely to work. (Unless the compiler can figure out from the source file suffixes in the compilation step *and* some info in the object files in the linking step that it is supposed to act like a C++ compiler. None of the compilers I am familiar with does the latter.) distutils should rather look for a C++ compiler in the PATH or explicitly ask the user to specify the command that calls the C++ compiler. It is different if --with-cxx=<compiler> was used. I agree that in this case distutils should use <compiler> to build C++ extensions. (distutils does not behave correctly when building C++ extensions anyway. It calls the C compiler to compile the C++ source files and passes options that gcc accepts only in C mode. The compiler version I am using is docile and only issues warnings. But these warnings are unnecessary and and I would not blame gcc if the next compiler release refused to compile C++ sources if the command line contains C specific options. But the distutils mailing list is a better place to bring this eventually up, I guess.) Regards Christoph -- http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/cludwig.html LiDIA: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/Welcome.html _______________________________________________ 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
