New submission from Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan16037...@hotmail.com.tw>: The cause is that ./configure contains unexpanded m4 macro PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3055c94/configure#L9909 For unknown reasons, after GH-6850 the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro is removed from aclocal.m4, and thus the macro is kept unexpanded in ./configure. As a result, $PKG_CONFIG is not correctly set, libffi can't be detected and thus _ctypes fails to build. Run autoreconf again fixes the issue on my machine. I have pkg-config 0.29.2-1, autoconf 2.69-4 and automake 1.15.1-1 on Arch Linux. cc the author of GH-6850 ---------- components: Build messages: 317424 nosy: benjamin.peterson, yan12125 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: libffi detection via pkg-config is broken type: compile error versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33619> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
