Re: improving PL/Python builds on OS X

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 10:11 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 5/9/13 3:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>> > BTW - it's always worked fine for us on 64 bit machines with the past
>> > few major releases of both PG and Python - are you saying that's pure
>> > chance?
>>
>> It works because ActiveState Python has PIC inside a static library.
>> But we have no straightforward way of knowing that (AFAIK), other than
>> observing whether the build result crashes or not.
>
> After further digging, it seems to me that their build is not a standard
> build.  They must be patching in compiler options through the backdoor
> somehow.  Their config/Makefile has
>
> BASECFLAGS=      -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC
>
> meaning that they compile *everything* with those options.  But that's
> not something that the standard Python configure script can produce.

Huh, interesting. I used to have a contact at ActiveState - I'll see
if I can get some more details.

> Again, reliably detecting that might be difficult.

Yeah, that's understandable. As long as I can force it though (and
your suggestion on that front seems to work fine), I'm happy.

Thanks.

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