From f6661415290811d616563003ec6ad7102f354bf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:23:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v7 8/8] Fix libpython configure check for AIX. This logic didn't believe that "libpythonXXX.a" is a candidate to be a shared library, but on AIX we'd better accept that. --- config/python.m4 | 5 +++++ configure | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/config/python.m4 b/config/python.m4 index b295ad3d3a4..ec3c80cf044 100644 --- a/config/python.m4 +++ b/config/python.m4 @@ -97,6 +97,11 @@ python_ldlibrary=`${PYTHON} -c "import sysconfig; print(' '.join(filter(None,sys # If LDLIBRARY exists and has a shlib extension, use it verbatim. ldlibrary=`echo "${python_ldlibrary}" | sed -e 's/\.so$//' -e 's/\.dll$//' -e 's/\.dylib$//' -e 's/\.sl$//'` +if test "$PORTNAME" = "aix"; then + # On AIX, '.a' should also be believed to be a shlib. + ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed -e 's/\.a$//'` +fi + if test -e "${python_libdir}/${python_ldlibrary}" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"${ldlibrary}" then ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed "s/^lib//"` diff --git a/configure b/configure index 6a85065279d..bb0b739eb4d 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -10705,6 +10705,11 @@ python_ldlibrary=`${PYTHON} -c "import sysconfig; print(' '.join(filter(None,sys # If LDLIBRARY exists and has a shlib extension, use it verbatim. ldlibrary=`echo "${python_ldlibrary}" | sed -e 's/\.so$//' -e 's/\.dll$//' -e 's/\.dylib$//' -e 's/\.sl$//'` +if test "$PORTNAME" = "aix"; then + # On AIX, '.a' should also be believed to be a shlib. + ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed -e 's/\.a$//'` +fi + if test -e "${python_libdir}/${python_ldlibrary}" -a x"${python_ldlibrary}" != x"${ldlibrary}" then ldlibrary=`echo "${ldlibrary}" | sed "s/^lib//"` -- 2.43.7