[lldb-dev] Restoring build with LLDB_DISABLE_PYTHON

[Ed Maste]

On 2 July 2013 16:16, Jason Molenda <jason at molenda.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, I'm curious about how widely used LLDB_DISABLE_PYTHON
>> is.  For FreeBSD we'd eventually like to bring lldb into the base
>> system, so having it be usable without Python is very interesting to
>> us.
>
> As Greg said, we are actively using the Python-less build of lldb in one configuration at Apple so it should build and work fine, I'm a little surprised that the build failure you hit didn't affect our build.
>
>
> One thing to think about is that lldb users typically adopt the python scripting interfaces and build up collections of custom commands/formatters.  For new lldb users, lack of Python is not important - but once people have grown familiar with its capabilities, the lack of Python will be a real drag for them.

I agree, but this is only for our base system; in the worst case the
user can just install (a second copy of) lldb from a package or the
ports tree, and it will bring along Python.  Ideally though I'd like
to be able to build with Python support but have it handle a missing
python .so at runtime, so that the user can later install Python and
have it "just work."