https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e4d32a3ef9eab34225fd9320632edbce834f4033
commit: e4d32a3ef9eab34225fd9320632edbce834f4033
branch: main
author: Petr Viktorin <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2025-12-15T15:15:22+01:00
summary:
gh-142020: ctypes docs: Note that find_library relies on the programs it runs
(GH-142134)
files:
M Doc/library/ctypes.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 9c0b246c095483..6038af99009d02 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1388,6 +1388,9 @@ On Linux, :func:`~ctypes.util.find_library` tries to run
external programs
(``/sbin/ldconfig``, ``gcc``, ``objdump`` and ``ld``) to find the library file.
It returns the filename of the library file.
+Note that if the output of these programs does not correspond to the dynamic
+linker used by Python, the result of this function may be misleading.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.6
On Linux, the value of the environment variable ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH`` is used
when searching for libraries, if a library cannot be found by any other
means.
@@ -2132,6 +2135,8 @@ Utility functions
The exact functionality is system dependent.
+ See :ref:`ctypes-finding-shared-libraries` for complete documentation.
+
.. function:: find_msvcrt()
:module: ctypes.util
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