From: Alexander Meshcheryakov <Self-Perfection@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 14:53:32 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Fix linking with Python 3.8
X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.11.0~53^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F3344%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fcollectd.git

Fix linking with Python 3.8

Since Python 3.8 --embed flag needs to be provided to python-config to embed python.
Reference: https://bugs.python.org/issue36721

This was partially addressed in #3170 but only fixed building and not linking with python.
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diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9fc40b17d..00e1f6a53 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4711,7 +4711,7 @@ if test "$PYTHON_CONFIG" != ""; then
   if test $? -ne 0; then
     with_libpython="no"
   fi
-  LIBPYTHON_LDFLAGS="`${PYTHON_CONFIG} --ldflags`"
+  LIBPYTHON_LDFLAGS="`${PYTHON_CONFIG} --ldflags --embed`" || LIBPYTHON_LDFLAGS="`${PYTHON_CONFIG} --ldflags`"
   if test $? -ne 0; then
     with_libpython="no"
   fi