[issue40739] find_library broken for binutils >= 2.32 / 2.34

Change by SilentGhost : -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, meador.inge, vinay.sajip versions: -Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue40739] find_library broken for binutils >= 2.32 / 2.34

Frederik Rietdijk added the comment: I suppose this issue was not found yet because a) regression testing is done with ubuntu 18.04 LTS which uses binutils 2.30 and b) it, along with most distro's, will use ldconfig, which we in Nixpkgs have patched out. -- _

[issue40739] find_library broken for binutils >= 2.32 / 2.34

New submission from Frederik Rietdijk : With binutils 2.34 Python 3 (any version) the following returns None python3 -c 'import ctypes.util; print((ctypes.util.find_library("c")))' instead of the requested library which we think may be caused by https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.