Re: Running without Python

[Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 14:53 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Paul> But, it pretty much just stops:
> Paul>   $ my-gdb
> Paul>   Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Paul>   Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Paul>   Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Paul>   ImportError: No module named site
> Paul>   $
> 
> Paul> Any thoughts about this?  I guess I need to build GDB twice, once with
> Paul> Python for those systems that can use it and once without for those
> Paul> systems that don't have it.  Is there any interest in making this work
> Paul> "better"?
> 
> This should be better in a more recent gdb.  Please try git master.
> We've made it so that if Python initialization fails, then gdb still
> works but disables all the Python functionality.

Is this in 7.6.1, or just master?

> However, we haven't done the dlopen thing.  It's been discussed but I
> think it is difficult to do sanely, and especially difficult to do in a
> way that handles differences between versions of libpython.

That's OK with me, actually, because I've linked python statically so I
don't have to worry about it.  It's just the support .py stuff that's
missing when I copy GDB around.

Cheers!