Fixed LDSHARED for AIX, based on a patch by Rene Liebscher.
Ditched my old code that fixed relative paths in the Makefile -- didn't work,
doomed to failure, etc.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 330d3b3..9ca94ed 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -222,21 +222,6 @@
# bogus variable reference; just drop it since we can't deal
del notdone[name]
- # "Fix" all pathnames in the Makefile that are explicitly relative,
- # ie. that start with "./". This is a kludge to fix the "./ld_so_aix"
- # problem, the nature of which is that Python's installed Makefile
- # refers to "./ld_so_aix", but when we are building extensions we are
- # far from the directory where Python's Makefile (and ld_so_aix, for
- # that matter) is installed. Unfortunately, there are several other
- # relative pathnames in the Makefile, and this fix doesn't fix them,
- # because the layout of Python's source tree -- which is what the
- # Makefile refers to -- is not fully preserved in the Python
- # installation. Grumble.
- from os.path import normpath, join, dirname
- for (name, value) in done.items():
- if value[0:2] == "./":
- done[name] = normpath(join(dirname(fp.name), value))
-
# save the results in the global dictionary
g.update(done)
return g
@@ -257,6 +242,18 @@
raise DistutilsPlatformError, my_msg
parse_makefile(file, g)
+
+ # On AIX, there are wrong paths to the linker scripts in the Makefile
+ # -- these paths are relative to the Python source, but when installed
+ # the scripts are in another directory.
+ if sys.platform: # == 'aix4': # what about AIX 3.x ?
+ # Linker script is in the config directory, not in Modules as the
+ # Makefile says.
+ python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
+ ld_so_aix = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config', 'ld_so_aix')
+ python_exp = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config', 'python.exp')
+
+ g['LDSHARED'] = "%s %s -bI:%s" % (ld_so_aix, g['CC'], python_exp)
def _init_nt():