On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:26:17 -0700 Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > For a long time, NumPy has supported two different ways of being compiled: > > "Separate compilation" mode: like most C projects, each .c file gets > compiled to a .o file, and then the .o files get linked together to > make a shared library. (This has been the default since 1.8.0.) > > "One file" mode: first concatenate all the .c files together to make > one monster .c file, and then compile that .c file to make a shared > library. (This was the default before 1.8.0.) > [...] > > There are some rumors that "one file" mode might be needed on some > obscure platform somewhere, or that it might be necessary for > statically linking numpy into the CPython executable, but we can't > continue supporting things forever based only on rumors.
If those rumors were true, CPython would not even be able to build (the _io module in 3.x is linked from several C object files, for example). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
