Commit 028812ae by Yannick Jadoul Committed by GitHub

docs: add warning about FindPython's Development component when libraries don't…

docs: add warning about FindPython's Development component when libraries don't exist (e.g. on manylinux) (#2689)

* Add waring about FindPython's Development component when libraries don't exist (e.g. on manylinux)

* Minor wording update (thanks, @henryiii!)
parent d57c1fab
......@@ -433,6 +433,14 @@ setting ``Python_ROOT_DIR`` may be the most common one (though with
virtualenv/venv support, and Conda support, this tends to find the correct
Python version more often than the old system did).
.. warning::
When the Python libraries (i.e. ``libpythonXX.a`` and ``libpythonXX.so``
on Unix) are not available, as is the case on a manylinux image, the
``Development`` component will not be resolved by ``FindPython``. When not
using the embedding functionality, CMake 3.18+ allows you to specify
``Development.Module`` instead of ``Development`` to resolve this issue.
.. versionadded:: 2.6
Advanced: interface library targets
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