Doing a partial rebuild of Python?

[Roy Smith]

A while ago, I build Python-2.3.4 from source on my OSX machine. At the
time, I didn't have the gdbm library installed, so the gdbm module
didn't get built.

I've since installed the gdbm library and want to build the gdbm module.
I could do the whole configure/make thing, but that's kind of slow. Is
there some way to just rebuild a single module?

[Irmen de Jong]

Roy Smith wrote:

A while ago, I build Python-2.3.4 from source on my OSX machine. At the
time, I didn't have the gdbm library installed, so the gdbm module
didn't get built.

I've since installed the gdbm library and want to build the gdbm module.
I could do the whole configure/make thing, but that's kind of slow. Is
there some way to just rebuild a single module?

Just typing "make" again should build any new modules that have
been enabled by installing additional libraries -- without recompiling
anything else.

[John J. Lee]

Irmen de Jong <[e-mail]> writes:

Roy Smith wrote:

[...]

module. I could do the whole configure/make thing, but that's kind
of slow. Is there some way to just rebuild a single module?

Just typing "make" again should build any new modules that have
been enabled by installing additional libraries -- without recompiling
anything else.

Don't you need to do a ./configure too, first?
John

[Irmen de Jong]

John J. Lee wrote:

Irmen de Jong <[e-mail]> writes:

Just typing "make" again should build any new modules that have
been enabled by installing additional libraries -- without recompiling
anything else.

Don't you need to do a ./configure too, first?

I thought not. But I could be mistaken.
(I thought the module compile process was smart
enough to figure it out by itself, without
needing ./configure again...)

--Irmen

[Michael Hudson]

jj*@pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:

Irmen de Jong <[e-mail]> writes:

Roy Smith wrote: [...]

module. I could do the whole configure/make thing, but that's kind
of slow. Is there some way to just rebuild a single module?

Just typing "make" again should build any new modules that have
been enabled by installing additional libraries -- without recompiling
anything else.

Don't you need to do a ./configure too, first?

No. gdbmmodule is built by setup.py, so no autoconfery required.

Cheers,
mwh

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