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Title: setup.py shall search by default for libffi.so in /usr/local/lib64
Type: Stage: resolved
Components: Build Versions: Python 3.8
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Status: closed Resolution: duplicate
Dependencies: Superseder: How to link with a non-system libffi?
View: 14527
Assigned To: Nosy List: dilyan.palauzov, ned.deily
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2020-05-03 19:54 by dilyan.palauzov, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg367990 - (view) Author: Дилян Палаузов (dilyan.palauzov) Date: 2020-05-03 19:54
With libffi 3.3 doing `./configure && make install` puts  libffi.so in /usr/local/lib64/ . This can be found by pkgconfig.

But setup.py neither uses pkgconfig, nor checks by default /usr/local/lib64 for libffi
msg368417 - (view) Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-05-08 03:27
Thanks for the report and for the analysis. There have been a number of reports over the years about problems trying to build and/or execute Pythons with an external copy of libffi. They have become more pressing now that we no longer vendor the source of libffi in Python source releases. To help focus on the issues, we are consolidating the discussion in Issue14527, one of the earliest opened issues.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:30adminsetgithub: 84668
2020-05-08 03:27:34ned.deilysetstatus: open -> closed

superseder: How to link with a non-system libffi?

nosy: + ned.deily
messages: + msg368417
resolution: duplicate
stage: resolved
2020-05-03 19:54:08dilyan.palauzovcreate