[issue33619] libffi detection via pkg-config is broken

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: New changeset 03c0d2e1f272c7c6df5f6066a6abc222ff61073a by Benjamin Peterson (Chih-Hsuan Yen) in branch 'master': closes bpo-33619: Fix libffi detection by regenerating ./configure (GH-7075)

[issue33619] libffi detection via pkg-config is broken

Change by Barry A. Warsaw : -- nosy: +barry ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue33619] libffi detection via pkg-config is broken

Change by Chih-Hsuan Yen : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +6706 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33619] libffi detection via pkg-config is broken

New submission from Chih-Hsuan Yen : The cause is that ./configure contains unexpanded m4 macro PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3055c94/configure#L9909 For unknown reasons, after GH-6850 the PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG macro is removed from