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Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, Meador Inge <meadori at codesourcery dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:36:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome
References: <50511945.2070400@codesourcery.com> <20120917170657.GB5716@adacore.com> <20120917174611.GA27891@host2.jankratochvil.net> <CADPb22R4cTRqHyRi6asd6muJooPFPaCaRi2DDuqEtA+ew9jrRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120919080410.GA12296@host2.jankratochvil.net>

> For the bundled uninstalled pack of files I find OK to use Py_SetPythonHome
> although only in the case $PYTHONHOME is not set.  If $PYTHONHOME is set then
> GDB should not override it.  This override is what was decided in:
> 	http://bugs.python.org/issue14956#msg161959

FWIW, I read the discussion, and I find it inconclusive in the sense
that they seem to lean towards letting each application decide for
themselves what to do. Certainly, I am still in favor of the proposed
patch, but IIRC, this is causing problems for you (?). This is why
I dropped its inclusion in the FSF tree.

-- 
Joel

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