[LFS Trac] #5729: Python: add --without-static-libpython

#5729: Python: add --without-static-libpython
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 Reporter:  thomas       |      Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  12.4
Component:  Book         |    Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 **--without-static-libpython**

 User dantob brought this up in #lfs-support:

 <dantob> Basically, python as built in lfs ships a large static lib
 libpython-$version.a (50mb unstripped, about 6mb stripped, its probably
 the largest lib on thesystem), afaik it's not required for anything in
 lfs. Python can be built without the static lib with `--without-static-
 libpython` since python version 3.10. there may be something in blfs that
 requires it, it might require some more investigation. The upstream bug
 about it is here https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/87269, and the
 commit
 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24418/commits/e1268bd493ac4e44e0b29fac326287c8d098db07

 Indeed, there is a big static lib:

 {{{
 $ ls -la /usr/lib/python3.13/config-3.13-x86_64-linux-gnu/*.a
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9080942 17. Apr 22:39
 /usr/lib/python3.13/config-3.13-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.13.a
 }}}

 Adding the mentioned switch (`--without-static-libpython`) prevents it
 from being built - at least from being installed.

 Do you know what the .a is good for? Shouldn't we add that switch?

 **Test files**

 The directory /usr/lib/python3.13/test contains 139M of test files.

 Are they really needed?
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