[Python-Dev] Where is this flag coming from?

[Tim Rice]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> [Martin]
> > For 2.2.2, backing out any setup.py changes to add
> > runtime_library_dirs should be taking into consideration.
>
> This sounds like a conservative solution.  There is exactly one such
> option, for ssl.  The checkin message:
>
[snip]
> +                                    runtime_library_dirs = ssl_libs,

The only real problem is -R seems to be added for all unix platforms.
This change would benefit all my platforms if it handled -R properly
In OpenSSH we only use -R on solaris and freebsd.
Perhaps runtime_library_dir_option() in Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py
needs some work.


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