Message 142499 - Python tracker

Message142499

Author	doko
Recipients	Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, benjamin.peterson, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, georg.brandl, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date	2011-08-19.21:28:36
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Message-id	<1313789316.99.0.792772023217.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> The build time Linux kernel has no effect on Python's build procedure > whatsoever. Python does not use the kernel at all for building; it > only uses the C library headers, and the kernel headers that happen > to be incorporated into the version of the C library installed. That > affects what features get selected during build time. would be very nice, but unfortunately this is not true; the multiprocessing behavior depends on configure checks testing the running kernel.

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> The build time Linux kernel has no effect on Python's build procedure
> whatsoever. Python does not use the kernel at all for building; it
> only uses the C library headers, and the kernel headers that happen
> to be incorporated into the version of the C library installed. That
> affects what features get selected during build time.

would be very nice, but unfortunately this is not true; the multiprocessing behavior depends on configure checks testing the running kernel.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-19 21:28:37	doko	set	recipients: + doko, lemburg, loewis, barry, georg.brandl, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, foom, pitrou, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte
2011-08-19 21:28:36	doko	set	messageid: <1313789316.99.0.792772023217.issue12326@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2011-08-19 21:28:36	doko	create