From: Stefan Krah Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:21:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #7384: On Gentoo, libreadline.so is a "fake library", so ldd fails. X-Git-Tag: v2.7.1rc1~592 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e26e23d9df202fa2314b57530e5af32ff326e5b;p=python Issue #7384: On Gentoo, libreadline.so is a "fake library", so ldd fails. In that case, do not attempt to parse stderr output. --- diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 464242d5c1..a363509fbd 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -594,16 +594,18 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): # Determine if readline is already linked against curses or tinfo. if do_readline and find_executable('ldd'): fp = os.popen("ldd %s" % do_readline) - for ln in fp: - if 'curses' in ln: - readline_termcap_library = re.sub( - r'.*lib(n?cursesw?)\.so.*', r'\1', ln - ).rstrip() - break - if 'tinfo' in ln: # termcap interface split out from ncurses - readline_termcap_library = 'tinfo' - break - fp.close() + ldd_output = fp.readlines() + ret = fp.close() + if ret is None or ret >> 8 == 0: + for ln in ldd_output: + if 'curses' in ln: + readline_termcap_library = re.sub( + r'.*lib(n?cursesw?)\.so.*', r'\1', ln + ).rstrip() + break + if 'tinfo' in ln: # termcap interface split out from ncurses + readline_termcap_library = 'tinfo' + break # Issue 7384: If readline is already linked against curses, # use the same library for the readline and curses modules. if 'curses' in readline_termcap_library: