Python extraneous dependencies

[Steven Penny]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:42:36, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 16:29 -0800, Steven Penny wrote:
>> I noticed that "python36" requires "binutils".
> 
> This is needed for ctypes.util.find_library().  FWIW, on Linux, not
> only binutils is used, but also gcc.

Are you sure about that? It seems that function doesnt even work:

$ python3.6 -q
>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>> print(find_library('z'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz'))
None
>>> print(find_library('z.dll'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz.dll'))
None

$ python3.7 -q
>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>> print(find_library('z'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz'))
None
>>> print(find_library('z.dll'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz.dll'))
None

$ python3.8 -q
>>> from ctypes.util import find_library
>>> print(find_library('z'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz'))
None
>>> print(find_library('z.dll'))
None
>>> print(find_library('cygz.dll'))
None

Also see this post:

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2019-02/msg00432.html


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