Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared is used.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
index 923197bac43674e86fdfb3970c8a730c8893c63a..f0a7d4cafdd87750d4ef94f1d334be5fda770564 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py
@@ -231,12 +231,10 @@ class build_ext (Command):
                 # building python standard extensions
                 self.library_dirs.append('.')
 
-        # for extensions under Linux or Solaris with a shared Python library,
+        # For building extensions with a shared Python library,
         # Python's library directory must be appended to library_dirs
-        sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')
-        if ((sys.platform.startswith('linux') or sys.platform.startswith('gnu')
-             or sys.platform.startswith('sunos'))
-            and sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')):
+        # See Issues: #1600860, #4366
+        if (sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_ENABLE_SHARED')):
             if sys.executable.startswith(os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "bin")):
                 # building third party extensions
                 self.library_dirs.append(sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBDIR'))

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d9e23339435291967670eb3f53e5c9126df2231e..2984b57e43d655edbd974ef214b5b8a30a553b5f 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
+  is used.
+
 - Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
   Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
   number of frames from multichannel stream.  Au_write.writeframesraw() now