On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:42:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 10/21/20 1:13 AM, James McCoy wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:22:50AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> subversion b-d's on python3-all-dev, but only builds for the default
> >> python3
> >> version.
> >
> > It actually builds for all available versions, but the install is
> > broken. This used to work with Python 2.x.
> >
> > It looks like the difference is that
> >
> > python$$v -c 'from distutils import sysconfig;
> > print(sysconfig.get_python_lib())'
> >
> > no longer returns a version-specific path. When installing the Python
> > bindings, that means we install all versions to the same path and they
> > overwrite each other.
> >
> > Was this an intentional change? If so, I guess I'll need to emulate
> > aspects of pybuild to handle this.
>
> yes, 2.7 installed into a version specific path, while 3.x installs into a
> common path. Maybe it's worth patch the upstream to create the soname with the
> version already encoded in the soname.
We're already doing some patching (thanks to you!) to support building
version-specific Python bindings. I'll see about updating that to use
the distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX').
Cheers,
--
James
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