#13889: Better automatic backtrace
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner: jdemeyer
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.6
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Volker Braun | Merged in:
Dependencies: #13881, #13866 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:31 vbraun]:
> Replying to [comment:29 jdemeyer]:
> > Which make me wonder: should we change the Python spkg to make
symbolic links like to one above (say, based on which libraries exist in
`/usr/lib`).
>
> No, definitely not. Library versioning is there for a reason. In the
case of GDB you might get away with it since GDB just runs an embedded
Python, but anything that really touches Python internals might get very
upset.
>
> But maybe we can LD_PRELOAD libpython just for gdb, does that work?
Yes, it does, at least for Python-2.6.
When system Python is 2.4, it doesn't work. I don't have a system with
Python 2.5 and a sufficiently recent GDB.
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