Rene Liebscher: hack '_init_posix()' to handle the BeOS linker script.
(With a worry-wart comment added by me about where we *should* add the
Python library to the link.)
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 2246327..3774ab2 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -255,6 +255,23 @@
g['LDSHARED'] = "%s %s -bI:%s" % (ld_so_aix, g['CC'], python_exp)
+ if sys.platform == 'beos':
+
+ # Linker script is in the config directory. In the Makefile it is
+ # relative to the srcdir, which after installation no longer makes
+ # sense.
+ python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
+ linkerscript_name = os.path.basename(string.split(g['LDSHARED'])[0])
+ linkerscript = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config', linkerscript_name)
+
+ # XXX this isn't the right place to do this: adding the Python
+ # library to the link, if needed, should be in the "build_ext"
+ # command. (It's also needed for non-MS compilers on Windows, and
+ # it's taken care of for them by the 'build_ext.get_libraries()'
+ # method.)
+ g['LDSHARED'] = ("%s -L%s/lib -lpython%s" %
+ (linkerscript, sys.prefix, sys.version[0:3]))
+
def _init_nt():
"""Initialize the module as appropriate for NT"""