Hi Richard,

On 15 February 2017 at 11:22, Richard Plangger <planri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On my branch (called vmprof-native), libunwind is required to be available
> on the system. Which means that we need to install those on the buildbots
> (which is fine) and libunwind suddenly becomes a dependency when building
> PyPy on Linux and Mac. Is the latter ok? Or should libunwind be an optional
> dependency?

Avoiding to make it a hard dependency would be a good idea.  Also,
libunwind is a hack that showed problems when vmprof previously
supported C frames, and it was removed for that reason.  Maybe you
should give a word about why re-enabling C frames with libunwind looks
ok now?


A bientôt,

Armin.
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