waf and building python modules for multiple python versions

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Apr 9 07:52:26 UTC 2022


On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 10:14 +0300, Michael Tokarev via samba-technical
wrote:
> Here with waf, I don't see how it is possible. Well, I do
> see one possibility: to copy source into yet another separate
> subdir (as many subdirs as there are additional python
> versions for the build) and run configure & build & install
> in every of them in turn, specifying the right PYTHON= in
> the environment.  This *should* work.

That is the only plan I can think of.  But which python version would
Samba's python-using libs link to?  For as long as you ship smbtorture
and expect it to work you would have to do multiple versions of that as
well...

Andrew Bartlett

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