Re: 7.2 branch, configure problem, --with-python

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> >Wow, thanks for going to all that effort.
> 
> Umm, how does Py_ENABLE_SHARED get defined?
> Is this an environment variable that I need to set?

No - This variable is defined in module sysconfig if your python was
built with --enable-shared. For instance, with 7.2-shared:

        % python-2.7-shared
        >>> from distutils import sysconfig
        >>> sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_ENABLE_SHARED")
        1

Whereas with the static version:

        % python-2.7-static
        >>> from distutils import sysconfig
        >>> sysconfig.get_config_var("Py_ENABLE_SHARED")
        0

Surprisingly, the system python installed on my ubuntu machine
returns 0 for Py_ENABLE_SHARED, even though I definitely have
the shared version of libpython there.  But at the same time,
I do have both archive and dso installed at both <prefix>/lib
and <prefix>/lib/python-<version>/config...

That's why, I think, it ends up working for me, even though it
seems that the python that is distributed with ubuntu is statically
linked.

-- 
Joel