[Python-Dev] How to fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux for 3.2 and newer? (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 20 22:36:48 CET 2013

On Mar 20, 2013, at 01:18 PM, Matthias Klose wrote:

The patch in the issue now makes a distinction between EXTSUFFIX and SHLIBSUFFIX, and restores the value of SO to SHLIBSUFFIX. Now this could break users of sysconfig.getconfigvar('SO'), however I don't see a better way than to restore the original behaviour and advise people to use the new config variables.

It should probably be considered a bug that we changed the meaning of SO in PEP 3149, but I don't think anybody realized it was being used for both purposes (otherwise I'm sure we wouldn't have done it that way). I suppose Georg should make the final determination for 3.2 and 3.3, but the solution you propose seems about the best you can do.

As we discussed at Pycon, you'll post a diff to the PEP in the tracker issue and I'll commit that when I figure out the best way to indicate that a PEP has been updated post-Final status.

-Barry

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