[issue4366] cannot find -lpythonX.X when buinding Python on FreeBSD

[Nick Bastin]

Nick Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com> added the comment:

A more appropriate patch should be (for 2.7 trunk - I'm grabbing a checkout of 3.2 trunk now):

Index: build_ext.py
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--- build_ext.py	(revision 77388)
+++ build_ext.py	(working copy)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
         # Python's library directory must be appended to library_dirs
         sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')
         if ((sys.platform.startswith('linux') or sys.platform.startswith('gnu')
-             or sys.platform.startswith('sunos'))
+             or sys.platform.startswith('sunos') or sys.platform.startswith('freebsd'))
             and sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')):
             if sys.executable.startswith(os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "bin")):
                 # building third party extensions


I'm hoping someone will weigh in on whether this should be done on all versions of FreeBSD (I don't see why not, but perhaps there is some magic that I don't understand in newer versions).

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +nbastin
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15799/4366.diff

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