Re: [Hamlib-developer] python binding autoconfiscation
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From: Stephane F. <f8...@fr...> - 2010-04-08 20:54:56
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On Sun, Apr 04, 2010, 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. Is there any benefit to having > them built by default? Would it be "better" to disable them by default > so that people "who know what they are doing" could enable them if > needed? I agree with you, they should be disabled by default. Mon, Apr 05, 2010, Thomas Beierlein skribis: > 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. But we do need PYTHON_CPPFLAGS. Some systems may need the library, and/or its dependencies, but we can leave that. > Maybe we should adapt to the newer ax_python.m4 macro from the autoconf > archive. But we would have to adapt configure.ac accordingly. Good idea. Anyway, we'll have to adapt configure.ac in order to follow Nate's suggestion. 73 -- Stephane - F8CFE |