Björn Lindqvist <bjou...@gmail.com> added the comment: I'm not Hallvard but I'd also appreciate this feature. I think it is quite important to have for automated build systems; Python seem to build correctly but then down the line some other package fails because the bz2 module is not available.
IMHO it is wrong that you _can_ build python without libbz2 (for example) because what you get is a broken standard library. It is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation that bz2 is an optional module. I think terminating the build at the configure step if libbz2 is not found would be correct. Otherwise maybe the standard --with configure options could be used for this. E.g. ./configure --with-bz2 --with-ssl etc. ---------- nosy: +bjourne _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue960325> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
