id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 5729 Python: add --without-static-libpython thomas lfs-book "**--without-static-libpython** User dantob brought this up in #lfs-support: 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? " enhancement closed normal 12.4 Book git normal fixed