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-rw-r--r--var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
index 151b56bb8d..bdc4a64019 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ class Python(AutotoolsPackage):
extendable = True
+ variant(
+ 'debug', default=False,
+ description="debug build with extra checks (this is high overhead)"
+ )
+
# --enable-shared is known to cause problems for some users on macOS
# See http://bugs.python.org/issue29846
variant('shared', default=sys.platform != 'darwin',
@@ -242,6 +247,11 @@ class Python(AutotoolsPackage):
spec.satisfies('@2.7.12:2.8,3.5.2:', strict=True):
config_args.append('--with-icc')
+ if '+debug' in spec:
+ config_args.append('--with-pydebug')
+ else:
+ config_args.append('--without-pydebug')
+
if '+shared' in spec:
config_args.append('--enable-shared')
else: