[issue34823] libffi detection doesn’t work in my setup

Daniel Fetchinson added the comment: It seems there is a way to fix this: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2018-December/738568.html LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs-only-L libffi` ./configure Would be nice to document this or make the build system find the libraries and headers in

[issue34823] libffi detection doesn’t work in my setup

Daniel Fetchinson added the comment: I have the exact same issue, trying to compile 3.7.1 with a custom libffi location. Note that I must build libffi from source and can't install binaries provided by my distro, I believe this is the origin of the problem. Probably the python build s

[issue34823] libffi detection doesn’t work in my setup

Daniel Fetchinson added the comment: It would be really great if this could be sorted out because at the moment this bug prevents me from using numpy/scipy with python 3.7.1 (they need _ctypes). -- __ Python tracker <ht