LDFLAGS problem

[Stefan Krah]

Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Robin Becker wrote:
> > After installing python 2.7.1 on a Freebsd 8.0 system with the normal configure make dance
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/PYTHON --enable-unicode=ucs2
> > make
> > make install
> > 
> > I find that when I build extensions PIL, MySQLdb I'm getting errors related to a dangling ${LDFLAGS}
> > 
> > eg  MySQLdb
> > 
> >> running build_ext
> >> building '_mysql' extension
> >> creating build/temp.freebsd-7.0-RELEASE-i386-2.7
> >> gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -Dversion_info=(1,2,2,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.2 -I/usr/local/include/mysql -I/home/rptlab/PYTHON/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.freebsd-7.0-RELEASE-i386-2.7/_mysql.o -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
> >> gcc -pthread -shared ${LDFLAGS} build/temp.freebsd-7.0-RELEASE-i386-2.7/_mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lcrypt -lm -o build/lib.freebsd-7.0-RELEASE-i386-2.7/_mysql.so
> >> gcc: ${LDFLAGS}: No such file or directory
> >> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> > 
> > where should I be looking to fix this problem?

Try the patch from http://bugs.python.org/issue10547 or use an svn checkout.
The patch didn't make it into 2.7.1.


Stefan Krah