Steve Dower added the comment:
Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered
for distutils.
If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and
reopen it. If y
Jeroen Demeyer added the comment:
Sorry for the late answer, but yes: I found this out using an actual
compilation. I must admit it was in a bit of an usual situation (32-bit
userspace on a mixed 32/64-bit mutilib installation), but most other software
packages have no problems configuring co
Éric Araujo added the comment:
Hi Jeroen, thanks for the report. Did you run into this while building a
distribution or did you find it just reading the code? Distutils is in a
special state where we only fix bugs but don’t do any improvement for the sake
of improvements, because many setup
New submission from Jeroen Demeyer :
The find_library_function() in Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py does a very
simple-minded check to determine the existence of a library. It basically only
checks that a certain .so file exists. This may lead to false positives: the
mere existence of a .so fil
