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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:09:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-45371: Fix distutils' rpath support for clang (GH-28732)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.8~104
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ce5e07e9a4b78302b69f898527396ff7b5fd448;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-45371: Fix distutils' rpath support for clang (GH-28732)


Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
(cherry picked from commit ef6196028f966f22d82930b66e1371e75c5df2f7)

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
index f0792de74a1a..d00c48981eb6 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
@@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ class UnixCCompiler(CCompiler):
         return "-L" + dir
 
     def _is_gcc(self, compiler_name):
-        return "gcc" in compiler_name or "g++" in compiler_name
+        # clang uses same syntax for rpath as gcc
+        return any(name in compiler_name for name in ("gcc", "g++", "clang"))
 
     def runtime_library_dir_option(self, dir):
         # XXX Hackish, at the very least.  See Python bug #445902:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-05-11-03-48.bpo-45371.NOwcDJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-05-11-03-48.bpo-45371.NOwcDJ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..045489be81a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-10-05-11-03-48.bpo-45371.NOwcDJ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix clang rpath issue in :mod:`distutils`. The UnixCCompiler now uses
+correct clang option to add a runtime library directory (rpath) to a shared
+library.