Re: [PATCH v1] Fix wrong build tree in python.exp path on AIX

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>
> Python records the path to the export file in LINKFORSHARED sysconfig
> variable as a build tree relative path: -Wl,bE:Modules/python.exp

> But this will fail in AIX. When configure runs python-config.py --ldflags to test for
> libpython, the linker cannot find Modules/python.exp, the link test
> fails, and GDB is built without Python support.

> So in this patch we fix the same by replacing the relative path with LIBPL/python.exp (e.g.
> /opt/freeware/lib64/python3.12/config-3.12/python.exp) on AIX only,
> where LIBPL is the installed config directory that already contains
> the file.

Thanks for the patch.

I don't really understand this, but (1) I didn't see any other
commentary on it and (2) it seems to be AIX-specific.

So, I think it is ok.  I appreciate the comment in there.

It's fine if you want to apply this to the gdb-18 branch as well.

Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

Tom