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Subject: Re: Building Python: static library "3.2m"
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In article <BANLkTi=T+tXTOAdN2ts7RXpNcqaUFnO_iQ@mail.gmail.com>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Question: Why "3.2m"? What does that m mean? It seems to have come up
> a couple of times in the build process.

It's a new feature in Python 3.2 to allow multiple versions of shared C 
object files that differ in configure options (i.e. ones that affect the 
Python C ABI) to co-exist in one Python installation.  "m" means that 
they were built with pymalloc.  Other flags are "d" for debug, and "u" 
for wide-unicode.

http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.2.html#pep-3149-abi-version-tagged
-so-files

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org