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Subject: Re: GNATColl
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On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:50:14 UTC, Ludovic Brenta  wrote:
> tonyg writes on comp.lang.ada:
> 
> > I've made some progress on the dependency side regarding python.  It
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> > needs a link to exist in /usr/bin/ called python-config and I think
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> > pretty much any python will do. Its a strange one though isn't it,
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> > don't packages have to have only possible dependency rather than a
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> > choice?
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> 
> 
> Python on Debian is outside my area of expertise.  I don't know what
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> python-config is or what it's supposed to do.  I do know of a Debian
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> Python Policy[1], which I have not read, and of a package
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> "python-dev"[2] that provides /bin/python-config.  Is that what you are
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> referring to?
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> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
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> [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=python-config&mode=exactfilename&suite=testing&arch=any
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> 
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> -- 
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> Ludovic Brenta.

Yes. I'm not too sure either but what I do know is that Gnatcoll needs it to configure itself to link with python. I also think that python-config decides which python to use. My investigation continues....