From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14680 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2012 19:38:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 14672 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Sep 2012 19:38:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-vb0-f41.google.com) (209.85.212.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:37:49 +0000 Received: by vbkv13 with SMTP id v13so299278vbk.0 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-system-of-record:x-gm-message-state; bh=4NeheTz0sSEwMCZhW2Tj7ljtbiK6IMZBmq3wfO8QCDc=; b=ZparJFKjrl7xWFeS57pc5DPpvLxjFkt7/jpYciWW8fMCSo8WI02BmC8N8lD26IMC0a 19qfTnBNEqf0lUqElP3uDxbdiwpo8b4CdaVLOIRDzZfdi26C+jiWujZjl16C53+qVu6z 8BIDQgC4Fgf+dsS3uQ9Bt30EPoBEDuGC8zfCieNnAbERqpVjSpCdlTYb/RYs78/TEena hx1LLcu5KbX3Db1JyRkAK9jlGqmWpkYhU9I3U7bIaJmoPAqmTMCobISSsegjdNPjKaxD TKEHh59RShTRB19RjTZkU4YHUpm4KTz5pw5by243p/Vs+h4bBgQNUuOY4gBOp3KguHNf O6Tw== Received: by 10.58.114.194 with SMTP id ji2mr611827veb.22.1347997068320; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.114.194 with SMTP id ji2mr611807veb.22.1347997068001; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.24.239 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120917174611.GA27891@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <50511945.2070400@codesourcery.com> <20120917170657.GB5716@adacore.com> <20120917174611.GA27891@host2.jankratochvil.net> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome From: Doug Evans To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Joel Brobecker , Meador Inge , gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnb8WqqxN/E1kqNrCk5V9GfFg71OaLH2Dq7CTpTyXes46ZGJmPItxrFbK67HPmnzd3QMKcLAmYpOxewzRS9ikVBSK10qmtEByybIjEk4epwj2v7MgGs2xPJWRx63G+imd+geBdlqmnXoWVVu7ss/JeU471TZF7exrEeSiZh2wUh9fcsG7olYAj15sk660aehBLL59HI X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:06:57 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I believe Jan contacted the Python developers, and their answer >> seemed to go in Jan's direction. > > Sorry for not replying it myself. > > The thread mails in each month: > [RFA] ignore PYTHONHOME environment variable. > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-11/msg00328.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-12/msg00214.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-01/msg00307.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-05/msg00710.html > > and the last one with Python upstream decision: > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-05/msg01041.html It's not clear to me that upstream has made a decision (or that they sufficiently understand our use-case). btw, for reference sake, I'm not opposed to [1]. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2010-11/msg00328.html If we need to provide some flexibility (via GDB_PYTHONHOME or some command-line option) we could do so later when the need is justified.