[Bf-python] Ubiquitous "Compiled with Python version" message

[Ken Hughes]

Stephen Swaney wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:28:46AM -0700, Ken Hughes wrote:
>> Now that we're linking python statically everywhere (I think),
> 
> I thought we were building dynamically.  Didn't you say you
> had problems with a static build not being compatible between
> distros?

Yeah, and I typed the wrong thing... I meant dynami :-/

>> the 
>> version message gives the wrong info, seems to me.  It prints out the 
>> version info in the shared lib, which may be a different micro version 
>> than the micro version Blender was compiled against. I think for the 
>> 2.42 release we saw some problems between the micro versions (Debian 
>> Sarge used 2.4.1, while Ubuntu and others used 2.4.3),
>>
>> Should we just print out the version numbers based on the PY_VERSION 
>> strings found at compile-time instead of using Py_GetVersion()?  Or 
>> compare to see if the compiled and shared differ?
> 
> I'm confused by this (no surprise there, eh?).
> 
> Py_GetVersion() prints out PY_VERSION from the py source as the
> version number.  
> 
> note:  #define in patchlevel.h

When I build the 64-bit release in Debian it used 2.5, but Ubuntu has 
2.5.1c1.  That's when I realized it wasn't really the build but the 
shared lib.

Ken