Re: [SECOND RESEND] [PATCH] tools/python: Pass linker to Python build process

[Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 03:02:59AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-G??recki wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:26:06PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 06:11:39PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > > Having looked around a bit, I believe this is a Python 2/3 compatibility
> > > issue.  "distutils" for Python 2 likely lacked a separate $LDSHARED or
> > > $LD variable, whereas Python 3 does have this.  Alas this is pointless
> > > due to the above (unless you can cause distutils.py to do the final link
> > > step separately).
> > 
> > I think this is well-reasoned but I don't have time to figure out and
> > verify the details.
> 
> Yes, it looks like distutils in Python 2 was even more limited than
> the one in Python 3.

Actually feels like two steps forward, one step back.  Separate
$LDSHARED, yet $CFLAGS is appended to $LDFLAGS during invocation.

Architecture name is included the output Python extension filename, yet
the only way to override requires writing Python code.  I've got ideas
to workaround this, but they're rather gross.


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