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Re: [RFA] ignore PYTHONHOME environment variable.
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Ben Woodard <woodard at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:37:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA] ignore PYTHONHOME environment variable.
- References: <20101123163045.GA1737@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <AANLkTi=W+PnwOfNkRRe5OMz0qm5vCghhduO5ve1Qk3zH@mail.gmail.com> <20101123173054.GW2634@adacore.com> <20101214071210.GQ2596@adacore.com> <20101214092645.GA20415@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20101214103305.GU2596@adacore.com> <20120518193352.GA12340@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120528144121.GI5492@adacore.com> <20120528172930.GA30697@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120529145402.GN5492@adacore.com>
On Tue, 29 May 2012 16:54:02 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Therefore I have filed distro-wide (sure to be only FYI for FSF GDB, after/if
> > it gets decided):
> > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/858
>
> Yeah - perhaps it is a bad idea to ignore PYTHONPATH just on our own.
So in the end Python upstream has decided the current behavior (not to do
anything special at the Python-embedded apps side) is right:
http://bugs.python.org/issue14956#msg161959
# No it shouldn't. As mentioned in the Fedora thread you linked, this is no
# different than the user setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to something that screws up
# a system installed program.
Regards,
Jan