[New-bugs-announce] [issue8335] distutils test_build_ext's test_get_outputs fails in bootstrap environment

[jan matejek]

New submission from jan matejek <jmatejek at suse.cz>:

when running testsuite in a clean environment without pre-installed system python, test_distutils fail in test_build_ext, test_get_outputs:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
LinkError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

full traceback is below.

this is most likely caused by change in r72637:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py?r1=72637&r2=72636&pathrev=72637
this changes compiler's working directory, so that it can no longer find libpython2.6.so with "-L."
(related to issue 6022 - the comments there point it out)

not sure about proper fix - personally, i don't care much about leaving one more file in builddir, whereas i do care about tests passing in clean env, so for SUSE i'm reverting r72637


full traceback:

test_distutils
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
test test_distutils failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py", line 261, in test_get_outputs
    cmd.run()
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 340, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 449, in build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 531, in build_extension
    target_lang=language)
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 769, in link_shared_object
    extra_preargs, extra_postargs, build_temp, target_lang)
  File "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.6.5/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py", line 259, in link
    raise LinkError, msg
LinkError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 102552
nosy: matejcik, tarek
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils test_build_ext's test_get_outputs fails in bootstrap environment
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.6

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