[Pythonmac-SIG] Building a debug framework build of Python

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 2 Jun, 2009, at 17:26, Bill Janssen wrote:

> Thanks, Ronald.
>
> It looks to me as if MacPython already includes the -g flags
> appropriately (at least build-script.py does); could I just download
> 2.5.4 from python.org and use that for debugging?

Not necessarily. Apple's version of python includes a number of  
patches, some of which will affect the debug symbols (such as some  
support for dtrace).

What I tend to do when I need to debug C code is to develop using the  
python.org installer which, as you mentioned, contains debugging  
symbols. The resulting C code should then work fine with the Apple  
installation of python. For really annoying bugs I have yet another  
seperate installation that was compiled using --with-pydebug, this  
tends to be the  most helpful when dealing with refcounting bugs in C  
extensions.

Ronald

>
> Bill
>
>
> Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Apple has the sources of the open-source components of OSX on their
>> website, the python bits for 10.5.7 are here:
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/python/python-30.1.3/ .
>>
>> I haven't checked if this includes the configure invocation, although
>> you could always use distutils to query the value of 'CONFIG_ARGS' .
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>> On 2 Jun, 2009, at 2:14, Bill Janssen wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to be able to connect to my Python programs, mainly
>>> long-running servers, and see what's going on in specific  
>>> threads.  To
>>> do that, I need a version of Python that's compiled with debug  
>>> symbols
>>> in it.  What's the correct invocation to build a debug version of
>>> Python
>>> (2.5) which matches what ships with OS X 10.5.7?
>>>
>>> I don't intend to replace the system Python; I just want to match
>>> it as closely as possible for debugging.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pythonmac-SIG maillist  -  Pythonmac-SIG at python.org
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>>

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