Nick Bastin

It turns out this issue had already been reported, at:

http://bugs.python.org/issue4366

The initial (unaccepted) patch in there did the same thing I did in my source tree to make it work, but it was clearly the wrong thing (it had the “wrong thing” smell from the start, really). After a bunch of digging, the reality is that there are a bunch of posix-like platforms for which if you have Py_ENABLE_SHARED set in distutils, put -L. into the LDFLAGS, just FreeBSD isn’t one of them.

So anyhow, as the thread on the issue now states, the seemingly proper fix is to extend the list of platforms which add the current working directory to the list of directories searched by the linker during a build. Barring any last minute complaints, I’ll probably commit this to 2.7 trunk, 3.2 trunk, 2.6 maint and 3.1 maint early next week.