>> And as far as I know pkg-config is used by python's configure script >> so everything should be fine. I also set >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/fetch/opt/lib:/home/fetch/opt/lib64 and also >> C_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/fetch/opt/include > > I looked into this a little. I found that setting C_INCLUDE_PATH as you > did disables finding libffi headers since pkg-config prints nothing with > pkg-config --cflags libffi then and it seems the headers are found with > pkg-config.
This didn't actually occur for me, I had C_INCLUDE_PATH set and your second suggestion (see below) worked. > As for the libraries, detect_modules() in setup.py wants to find extra > library directories from the generated makefile so you need to make sure > they actually go in there, like this for example: > > LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs-only-L libffi` ./configure > > Then you'll have CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS and PY_LDFLAGS set in the generated > makefile and setup.py will pick up the directory from there. Thanks a lot! This indeed worked, now _ctypes compiles no problemlo! Cheers, Daniel > Anyways, hope it helps. This worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
