Bug#586351: openturns: FTBFS with Python 2.6: Could not link test program to Python.

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: openturns
Version: 0.13.2-4
Severity: serious
User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
Usertags: python2.6
Tags: patch
Justification: FTBFS

Hello,

openturns fails to build from source. The relevant bits of the build log:

[…]
| checking for python... /usr/bin/python
| checking for python version... 2.6
| checking for python platform... linux2
| checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
| checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
| checking whether Python has package PyQt4... no
| checking whether Python has package rpy2... yes
| checking for python2.6... (cached) /usr/bin/python
| checking for a version of Python >= '2.1.0'... yes
| checking for the distutils Python package... yes
| checking for Python include path... -I/usr/include/python2.6
| checking for Python library path... -L/usr/lib/python2.6 -lpython2.6
| checking for Python site-packages path... /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
| checking python extra libraries... -lssl -lcrypto  -lssl -lcrypto      -L/usr/lib -lz -lpthread -ldl  -lutil
| checking python extra linking flags... -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
| checking consistency of all components of python development environment... no
| configure: error:
|   Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
|   installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
|   via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
|   Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
|   ============================================================================
|    ERROR!
|    You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
|    for your distribution.  The exact name of this package varies among them.
|   ============================================================================

LOCALMODLIBS, which is expanded here to "-lssl -lcrypto -lssl -lcrypto 
-L/usr/lib -lz", is not supposed to be used for linking Python 
extensions; see the attached patch.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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