Re: Python recompile

On 3/3/25 10:22, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 03/03/2025 08:13, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 12:30:53 -0500
>> James Kuyper <[email protected]> wibbled:
>>> On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:58:20 +0000, Muttley wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 15:54:19 -0000 (UTC)
>>>> Lew Pitcher <[email protected]> gabbled:
>>>>> First off, this isn't really on-topic for comp.lang.c, as it is a question
>>>>> regarding a linker, interacting
>>>>> with the results of various options given to a specific compiler.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a comp.lang.c.linker group?
>>>
>>> comp.lang.c is about using the C programming language. Linkers are
>>> independent of the programming language, and can be used to link
>>
>> Without compilers and linkers a C program would just be a load of text.
> 
> Without computers, keyboards and monitors most C programs wouldn't be
> much use, either. That doesn't make a malfunctioning computer monitor a
> C problem. And it doesn't make a linkage problems a C problem either.
> 
>>> together programs written in many different languages. The subject line
>>> and the text of the error messages indicate that it's a Python program,
>>> so why would a group devoted to C be in any way appropriate?
>>
>> If you'd taken 2 seconds to look at it you'd realise the issue was building
>> the Python source code which is written in C.
> 
> The indentations of the first message cross-posted to comp.lang.c and
> comp.lang.c++ suggest that it was the latest in a series of earlier
> messages posted somewhere else (comp.lang.python?). Those earlier
> messages might have contained additional information. If that
> information was relevant, it should have been included when the message
> was first cross-posted to comp.lang.c or comp.lang.c++. You might be
> right about it being "Python source code ... written in C", but nothing
> in the messages that were posted here makes that obvious.
> 
>   That sounds like a C issue to me.
> 
> If it were a C problem, then the C source code that produced the problem
> should have been shown. It's hard to debug code that you can't see.
Why is this group so intolerant?