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python

  • autoreconf breaks build
  • Depends on libgcov.a from gcc
  • Use bundled mpdecimal?
  • Add gdbm as a build-time dependency: https://docs.python.org/3/using/configure.html
  • Test suite for Berkeley DB requires tcl
  • --with-pymalloc provides better performance
  • Remove the pip symlinks in install if it is not being installed
  • Check --disable-test-modules
  • Alpine and Arch provide “Externally Managed” python
  • --enable-optimizations runs a suite of tests, and then uses collected profiling data to improve the performance of the installation itself, and some tests might hang in cross which is why a native rebuild is better with optimizations, once the system is complete; these sometimes fail on musl
  • Unable to use upstream binaries
  • Alpine uses stack size patches to avoid segfaults with sys.getrecursionlimit()
  • Adelie patches posixmodule.h to define int login_tty(int); as musl supports it
  • --with-system-ffi has been deprecated
  • No need to provide an EXTERNALLY-MANAGED file as we want users to use pip to manage python packages
  • Should we create symlinks for idle, pip and pydoc to their 3 versions?
  • Should we allow pip and other programming languages package managers to run as root alongside rad?; cp externally-managed /usr/lib/python3.13/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
  • Do we need to explicitly pass --with-openssl=/usr?
  • Do we need to specify these?
ac_cv_header_bluetooth_bluetooth_h=no
ac_cv_header_bluetooth_h=no
  • Consider adding -DLIBEDIT_SUPPORT to EXTRA_CFLAGS
  • For libedit support, sabotage also does:
# Apple is not the only platform where libedit is used
sed -i 's/__APPLE__/LIBEDIT_SUPPORT/g' Modules/readline.c
# workaround readline bug by removing unnecessary strdup/setlocale calls
sed -i 's/HAVE_SETLOCALE/HAVE_SETLOCALE) \&\& !defined(LIBEDIT_SUPPORT/g' Modules/readline.c
sed -i 's@return readline@return feedline@' configure

References

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