Control: reassign 977894 python3-xdo Control: affects 977894 + impass Control: severity critical Control: retitle 977894 python3-xdo: fails with python3.9 due to bad libc linkage
thanks for the diagnosis, Joey! this looks like a change between the
ctypes module between python 3.8 and 3.9. I'll fix it in python3-xdo,
and hopefully that will resolve your problem.
--dkg
On Wed 2020-12-23 20:46:42 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Yes, I get the same backtrace from both the 2 line script and the
> modified impass:
>
> joey@darkstar:~>impass gui
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/impass", line 11, in <module>
> load_entry_point('impass==0.12', 'console_scripts', 'impass')()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/impass/__main__.py", line 620, in main
> func(args)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/impass/__main__.py", line 350, in gui
> import xdo
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xdo/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
> from ._xdo import libxdo as _libxdo
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xdo/_xdo.py", line 14, in <module>
> libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('libc'))
> File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/util.py", line 341, in find_library
> _get_soname(_findLib_gcc(name)) or _get_soname(_findLib_ld(name))
> File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/util.py", line 147, in _findLib_gcc
> if not _is_elf(file):
> File "/usr/lib/python3.9/ctypes/util.py", line 99, in _is_elf
> with open(filename, 'br') as thefile:
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'liblibc.a'
>
> And so I modified /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xdo/_xdo.py as follows,
> which fixed the problem:
>
> - libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('libc'))
> + libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('c'))
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