From: Christian Heimes Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:22:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: bpo-32647: Link ctypes extension with libdl. (#5550) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~2168 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bb9692575f10f4a7c7f1c2c0c70956baf6d5c23;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-32647: Link ctypes extension with libdl. (#5550) The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl. Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes --- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..04fc0247bcde --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-05-13-31-42.bpo-32647.ktmfR_.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +The ctypes module used to depend on indirect linking for dlopen. The shared +extension is now explicitly linked against libdl on platforms with dl. diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index f4f6e4fdb1f0..8536c350fe3a 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -2005,6 +2005,10 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): ext.libraries.append(ffi_lib) self.use_system_libffi = True + if sysconfig.get_config_var('HAVE_LIBDL'): + # for dlopen, see bpo-32647 + ext.libraries.append('dl') + def _decimal_ext(self): extra_compile_args = [] undef_macros = []