STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
To come back to RPATH vs RUNPATH: these 2 are very different in term of priorities in search (see other comments). distutils uses an heuristic to opt-in for RUNPATH using GNU ld --enable-new-dtags option. This option is only used if the following 3 conditions are met: (1) the OS is not macOS, not FreeBSD, nor HP-UX (2) the C compiler is detected as GCC (3) Python detected the linker as being GNU ld Problem: the heuristic is not very reliable: (3) only checks the linker when Python is build, it's implemented as: sysconfig.get_config_var("GNULD") == "yes". In practice, the linker can be changed at runtime using environment variables and so Python may miss the oportunity for opt-in for --enable-new-dtags, or pass this option which is unknown to another linker. (2) The detection of GCC checks for "gcc" or "g++" string if the name of the compiler program name. If you use "cc", it's not detected as GCC. I'm not sure that these 2 problems are real problems "in practice". My main concern is that you might get RPATH or RUNPATH depending on operating system, the C compiler and the linker, whereas RPATH semantics is very different from RUNPATH semantics (search priority). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com