- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce
two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of
SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 20ffcc9..2d7bf7e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1073,6 +1073,10 @@
Build
-----
+- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce
+ two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of
+ SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4.
+
- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
diff --git a/Misc/python-config.in b/Misc/python-config.in
index 79f0bb1..0efaa43 100644
--- a/Misc/python-config.in
+++ b/Misc/python-config.in
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
print(' '.join(libs))
elif opt == '--extension-suffix':
- print(sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'))
+ print(sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX'))
elif opt == '--abiflags':
print(sys.abiflags)