Python: add --without-static-libpython

[thomas]

--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?

[Marty Jack]

I have --disable-test-modules and no /test directory.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed in trunk from the gcc15 branch.