Re: [Hamlib-developer] libltdl / FT747GX timeout problem - solved?

[Thomas B. <tb...@fo...>]

Hi All,

some words to the python problem from me.

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:37:25PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> As for Python slowing the build, I've not seen it as I disable the Perl
> and Python bindings on my local builds.  

On some machines the search for the path to the python library takes very long
(1..3 minutes). That comes from the very old python.m4 macro we use at the
moment. If the python lib libpython.so... can not be found in the old standard
locations it tries to find it via some 'find' commands. That can take a long
time if you have a lot of files in /usr.

The funny point is that we do not need that library it looks for at all.
Maybe we should adapt to the newer ax_python.m4 macro from the autoconf 
archive. But we would have to adapt configure.ac accordingly.

73,
	de Tom DL1JBE.

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