Re: [RFA] ignore PYTHONHOME environment variable.

Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-28T17:30:13Z

Hi Joel,

On Mon, 28 May 2012 16:41:21 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Is there something you need to fix on your side?

Yes, user has requested the same feature. It is rather a decision what
should be general behavior across applications linking with libpython (not
just for GDB). For example (yum is like AFAIK apt):
$ echo foo >site.py; PYTHONPATH=. yum list bash
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./site.py", line 1, in <module>
foo
NameError: name 'foo' is not defined
$ _

VIM behaves the same (although its crashes only after first :python command).

Therefore I have filed distro-wide (sure to be only FYI for FSF GDB, after/if
it gets decided):
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/858

> But does it answer your question about "ignore it"?

I have left the downstream decision to the ticket above, my already proposed
behavior (current FSF GDB state) is clearly wrong for users.

Thanks,
Jan