I suggest you configure --with-pydebug.  That will disable
optimization, enable debugging symbols and will make it easier to
develop.  Note that a debug version runs much slower due to asserts()
and other internal changes.  Otherwise, it should work the same.

On Oct 26, 2007 4:55 PM, Jean Brouwers <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Jean Brouwers added the comment:
>
> This is quite bizarre and difficult to reproduce.  With gdb, 3.0a1 does
> get to the very end of Py_Finalize, but without gdb it doesn't.
>
> Also, the call to static function  call_all_exitfuncs is inlined, its
> while loop is shown inside Py_Finalize on MacOS X.  On Linux that is not
> visible, probably due to differences in gcc/gdb, 4.0.1 or MacOS X and
> 3.4.6 on Linux.
>
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