Linking just got simpiler on AIX and BeOS (closes SF patch #103679).

nascheme · nascheme · commit 1a020868857c · 2001-02-16T03:31:13.000Z
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -305,31 +305,8 @@ def _init_posix():
     # 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)
-
-    elif 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, PREFIX, sys.version[0:3]))
+    if python_build:
+	g['LDSHARED'] = g['BLDSHARED']
 
     global _config_vars
     _config_vars = g
