[Python-checkins] bpo-32647: Link ctypes extension with libdl. (#5550)
Christian Heimes
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Sun Feb 25 04:22:17 EST 2018
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5bb9692575f10f4a7c7f1c2c0c70956baf6d5c23
commit: 5bb9692575f10f4a7c7f1c2c0c70956baf6d5c23
branch: master
author: Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-02-25T10:22:14+01:00
summary:
bpo-32647: Link ctypes extension with libdl. (#5550)
The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>
files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst
M setup.py
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..04fc0247bcde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared
+extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f4f6e4fdb1f0..8536c350fe3a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2005,6 +2005,10 @@ def detect_ctypes(self, inc_dirs, lib_dirs):
ext.libraries.append(ffi_lib)
self.use_system_libffi = True
+ if sysconfig.get_config_var('HAVE_LIBDL'):
+ # for dlopen, see bpo-32647
+ ext.libraries.append('dl')
+
def _decimal_ext(self):
extra_compile_args = []
undef_macros = []
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