Bugzilla Bug 138647

Old bug here (6 years), but trips up many apps. that use Python's distutils
module.

Distutils tries to pass '-R' to GCC instead of '-Wl,-R' when linking libraries.
If any of the libraries linked against in the built library are located in
directories that are not in the system's LDPATH, the application will fail to
find the linked library.

Read about it here ->
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=445902&group_id=5470&atid=105470

One line patch is included on that page from last year.

Correction, patch is located here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1254718&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Thanks

Can we apply this simple patch please, seems it does not work correctly on
gentoo without it.


To get the patchfile please run:
wget -q
'http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=5470&atid=305470&file_id=144928&aid=1254718'
-O patchfile

It looks like that:
--- Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py.orig 2005-08-09 11:54:17.000000000 +0900
+++ Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py      2005-08-09 12:54:37.000000000 +0900
@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@
             return "+s -L" + dir
         elif sys.platform[:7] == "irix646" or sys.platform[:6] == "osf1V5":
             return ["-rpath", dir]
-        elif compiler[:3] == "gcc" or compiler[:3] == "g++":
+        # This should recognize gcc, g++, gcc-x.y, ccache gcc, etc.
+        elif compiler.find("gcc") >= 0 or compiler.find("g++") >= 0:
             return "-Wl,-R" + dir
         else:
             return "-R" + dir

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Fixed in 2.3.6-r1, 2.4.4-r1 and 2.5.1.