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  • Hash : a0f9211b
    Author : Sam James
    Date : 2021-06-28T02:03:15

    python/Makefile.am: use *_LIBADD, not *_LDFLAGS for LIBS
    
    This fixes over-linking in the built Python modules with various libraries.
    
    *_LIBADD is intended for adding additional libraries for linking, while
    *_LDFLAGS is for miscellaneous extra flags (possibly user-supplied).
    
    If using -Wl,-as-needed within user-supplied LDFLAGS, it is passed too
    late (after the library link line) and therefore has no effect.
    
    Notes:
    
    * Noticed while working on Gentoo's migration to libxcrypt because
    libxml2's Python modules were linking to libcrypt (and other libraries)
    unexpectedly.
    
    * It was suggested we could actually stop linking explicitly with all
    of Python's libraries / don't copy its LDFLAGS, but this resolves
    the original issue downstream and is a separate discussion. I couldn't
    find any clear documentation for/against such a change.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/798942
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    

  • README

  • 		Module libxml2-python
    		=====================
    
    This is the libxml2 python module, providing access to the
    libxml2 and libxslt (if available) libraries. For general
    informationss on those XML and XSLT libraries check their 
    web pages at :
        http://xmlsoft.org/
        and
        http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
    
    The latest version of the sources for this module and the
    associated libraries can be found at:
        ftp://xmlsoft.org/
    
    Binaries packages of the libxml2 and libxslt libraries can
    be found either on the FTP site for Linux, from external
    sources linked from the web pages, or as part of your set of
    packages provided with your operating system.
    
    NOTE:
    this module distribution is not the primary distribution
    of the libxml2 and libxslt Python binding code, but as 
    the Python way of packaging those for non-Linux systems.
    The main sources are the libxml2 and libxslt tar.gz found on
    the site. One side effect is that the official RPM packages for
    those modules are not generated from the libxml2-python
    distributions but as part of the normal RPM packaging of
    those two libraries.
    The RPM packages can be found at:
        http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python
        http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python
    
    Daniel Veillard