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UnixCCompiler.find_library_file should handle LIBRARY_PATH #156

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mkoeppe opened this issue Jul 2, 2022 · 0 comments

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mkoeppe commented Jul 2, 2022 •

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The linker looks for libraries in the directories given by the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH before the system library directories. https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/ext_modules.html#compiler-and-linker-options

UnixCCompiler.find_library, used by various packages to determine whether a library can be linked (example: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/blob/main/setup.py), should handle LIBRARY_PATH too.

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