Re: [boost] Regressions in your Boost libraries as of 2005-07-06

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 09:37:49

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk_at_[hidden]> writes:

> --- Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> It looks like that's the problem, then. We have two libstdc++ versions 
>> around, hence the need to build Boost.Python with the same compiler 
>> version as Python. Bummer.
>> 
>> I wonder... does Python even use C++?
>
> Not to my knowledge.
> I guess they just wanted to do a favor to people using C++ extensions.
> Or maybe it is an oversight? Either the comment in configure.in is out
> of date or the script has a bug (Python 2.4.1 sources):
>
> # LINKCC is the command that links the python executable -- default is $(CC).
> # If CXX is set, and if it is needed to link a main function that was
> # compiled with CXX, LINKCC is CXX instead. Always using CXX is undesirable:
> # python might then depend on the C++ runtime
> # This is altered for AIX in order to build the export list before
> # linking.
>
>> Should they just be linking with gcc?
>
> Try this in the Python source code directory:
>
>     ./configure LINKCC=gcc
>
> It works for Python 2.4.1 under Fedora Core 3 (x86_64).

The advice I got on python-dev was:

    Configure with --without-cxx 

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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