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Re: Python recompile

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From	Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject	Re: Python recompile
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On 03/03/2025 16:24, geodandw wrote:
> On 3/3/25 10:22, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 03/03/2025 08:13, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:30:53 -0500
>>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wibbled:
>>>> On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:58:20 +0000, Muttley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 15:54:19 -0000 (UTC)
>>>>> Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> gabbled:
>>>>>> First off, this isn't really on-topic for comp.lang.c, as 
>>>>>> it is a question
>>>>>> regarding a linker, interacting
>>>>>> with the results of various options given to a specific 
>>>>>> compiler.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a comp.lang.c.linker group?
>>>>
>>>> comp.lang.c is about using the C programming language. 
>>>> Linkers are
>>>> independent of the programming language, and can be used to link
>>>
>>> Without compilers and linkers a C program would just be a load 
>>> of text.
>>
>> Without computers, keyboards and monitors most C programs 
>> wouldn't be
>> much use, either. That doesn't make a malfunctioning computer 
>> monitor a
>> C problem. And it doesn't make a linkage problems a C problem 
>> either.
>>
>>>> together programs written in many different languages. The 
>>>> subject line
>>>> and the text of the error messages indicate that it's a 
>>>> Python program,
>>>> so why would a group devoted to C be in any way appropriate?
>>>
>>> If you'd taken 2 seconds to look at it you'd realise the issue 
>>> was building
>>> the Python source code which is written in C.
>>
>> The indentations of the first message cross-posted to 
>> comp.lang.c and
>> comp.lang.c++ suggest that it was the latest in a series of 
>> earlier
>> messages posted somewhere else (comp.lang.python?). Those earlier
>> messages might have contained additional information. If that
>> information was relevant, it should have been included when the 
>> message
>> was first cross-posted to comp.lang.c or comp.lang.c++. You 
>> might be
>> right about it being "Python source code ... written in C", but 
>> nothing
>> in the messages that were posted here makes that obvious.
>>
>>   That sounds like a C issue to me.
>>
>> If it were a C problem, then the C source code that produced 
>> the problem
>> should have been shown. It's hard to debug code that you can't 
>> see.
> Why is this group so intolerant?

Why are you so intolerant of other people's wish to keep this 
group topical?

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Richard Heathfield
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