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-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/test/test_find.py12
-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/util.py32
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst3
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_find.py b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_find.py
index b99fdcba7b2..92ac1840ad7 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/test/test_find.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/test/test_find.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import unittest
+import unittest.mock
import os.path
import sys
import test.support
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ class Test_OpenGL_libs(unittest.TestCase):
@unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform.startswith('linux'),
'Test only valid for Linux')
-class LibPathFindTest(unittest.TestCase):
+class FindLibraryLinux(unittest.TestCase):
def test_find_on_libpath(self):
import subprocess
import tempfile
@@ -111,6 +112,15 @@ class LibPathFindTest(unittest.TestCase):
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
self.assertEqual(find_library(libname), 'lib%s.so' % libname)
+ def test_find_library_with_gcc(self):
+ with unittest.mock.patch("ctypes.util._findSoname_ldconfig", lambda *args: None):
+ self.assertNotEqual(find_library('c'), None)
+
+ def test_find_library_with_ld(self):
+ with unittest.mock.patch("ctypes.util._findSoname_ldconfig", lambda *args: None), \
+ unittest.mock.patch("ctypes.util._findLib_gcc", lambda *args: None):
+ self.assertNotEqual(find_library('c'), None)
+
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/util.py b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
index 97973bce001..0c2510e1619 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/util.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/util.py
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
# Andreas Degert's find functions, using gcc, /sbin/ldconfig, objdump
import re, tempfile
+ def _is_elf(filename):
+ "Return True if the given file is an ELF file"
+ elf_header = b'\x7fELF'
+ with open(filename, 'br') as thefile:
+ return thefile.read(4) == elf_header
+
def _findLib_gcc(name):
# Run GCC's linker with the -t (aka --trace) option and examine the
# library name it prints out. The GCC command will fail because we
@@ -130,10 +136,17 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
# Raised if the file was already removed, which is the normal
# behaviour of GCC if linking fails
pass
- res = re.search(expr, trace)
+ res = re.findall(expr, trace)
if not res:
return None
- return os.fsdecode(res.group(0))
+
+ for file in res:
+ # Check if the given file is an elf file: gcc can report
+ # some files that are linker scripts and not actual
+ # shared objects. See bpo-41976 for more details
+ if not _is_elf(file):
+ continue
+ return os.fsdecode(file)
if sys.platform == "sunos5":
@@ -299,17 +312,22 @@ elif os.name == "posix":
stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
universal_newlines=True)
out, _ = p.communicate()
- res = re.search(expr, os.fsdecode(out))
- if res:
- result = res.group(0)
- except Exception as e:
+ res = re.findall(expr, os.fsdecode(out))
+ for file in res:
+ # Check if the given file is an elf file: gcc can report
+ # some files that are linker scripts and not actual
+ # shared objects. See bpo-41976 for more details
+ if not _is_elf(file):
+ continue
+ return os.fsdecode(file)
+ except Exception:
pass # result will be None
return result
def find_library(name):
# See issue #9998
return _findSoname_ldconfig(name) or \
- _get_soname(_findLib_gcc(name) or _findLib_ld(name))
+ _get_soname(_findLib_gcc(name)) or _get_soname(_findLib_ld(name))
################################################################
# test code
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c8b3fc77184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
+``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
+available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo