make sure we respect the system libffi setting in our build config. the compiler probing is fragile and can break in some situations. --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): return True def detect_ctypes(self, inc_dirs, lib_dirs): - self.use_system_libffi = False + self.use_system_libffi = ('--with-system-ffi' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS")) include_dirs = [] extra_compile_args = [] extra_link_args = [] @@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): sources=['_ctypes/_ctypes_test.c']) self.extensions.extend([ext, ext_test]) - if not '--with-system-ffi' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"): + if not self.use_system_libffi: return if host_platform == 'darwin': @@ -2141,10 +2141,10 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext): ffi_lib = lib_name break - if ffi_inc and ffi_lib: + if ffi_inc: ext.include_dirs.extend(ffi_inc) + if ffi_lib: ext.libraries.append(ffi_lib) - self.use_system_libffi = True class PyBuildInstall(install):