[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

Ned Deily added the comment: > Ned, what about USING_APPLE_OS_LIBFFI? Is it still relevant? It was just added a year ago as part of the support for macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon systems. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

Change by Christian Heimes : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +27613 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29352 ___ Python tracker

[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

Éric Araujo added the comment: We could look in distro patch trackers to see they patch CPython’s setup.py to evaluate the impact of removing this function. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker

[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

Change by Sam James : -- nosy: +thesamesam ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

Christian Heimes added the comment: If we remove grep_headers_for(), then we can also close bpo-42325 -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45598] setup.py grep_headers_for() is broken by design

New submission from Christian Heimes : The setup.py helper function grep_headers_for() is used by ctypes build step to search header files for functions. The function kinda works on most platforms, but only by accident. On my system it opens all header files that match /usr/include/*.h and