[Python-bugs-list] [Bug #119645] distutils.sysconfig.LINKFORSHARED is undefined

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Bug #119645, was updated on 2000-Oct-28 17:24
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: Python
Category: Documentation
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Summary: distutils.sysconfig.LINKFORSHARED is undefined

Details: The current documentation (in http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/link-reqs.html) says to check the value of distutils.sysconfig.LINKFORSHARED in order to get compiler options for embedding Python.  However, this value is undefined in Python 2.0, installed on a RedHat Linux system from the RPMs on www.python.org:

>>> import distutils.sysconfig
>>> distutils.sysconfig.LINKFORSHARED 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: LINKFORSHARED


Follow-Ups:

Date: 2000-Oct-30 18:25
By: gward

Comment:
This is a documentation bug, but I plead partly guilty (since I changed the interface of the distutils.sysconfig module without thinking to see if it had been documented anywhere, implicitly or not).  Oops.

This patch fixes the doc bug:

--- ext.tex     2000/10/26 17:19:58     1.87
+++ ext.tex     2000/10/31 02:22:58
@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> import distutils.sysconfig
->>> distutils.sysconfig.LINKFORSHARED 
+>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var("LINKFORSHARED")
 '-Xlinker -export-dynamic'
 \end{verbatim}
 \refstmodindex{distutils.sysconfig}

Fred, I can check this in if you want...
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Date: 2000-Nov-02 13:52
By: fdrake

Comment:
Fixed in Doc/ext/ext.tex revision 1.88.
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