Python ctypes can't find libc on musl systems.

[chaoticryptidz]

Basically we need to have ebuilds for all python versions with the patch which fixes this.
https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/main/python3/musl-find_library.patch is the required patch and is required for all versions of python.

Example of error:

    assert libc_name is not None, "Cannot find C library, ctypes.util.find_library('c') returned None"

[chaoticryptidz]

Will also need same patch for pypy in the file lib-python/$VERSION/ctypes/util.py

[g3ngr33n]

Still need it ?

1 ebuild for each dev-lang/python version which apply the linked patch ?

[blueness]

This really sucks because I'd rather not have patches against core packages. I was hoping to get all of @System packages into the tree. This move in the opposite direction. So, has there been any attempt to get these patches upstream?

[chaoticryptidz]

I don't use Gentoo anymore so I can't really help, but it would be good to chat with python devs on IRC and ask for help upstreaming it.

[anarchpenguin]

This really sucks because I'd rather not have patches against core packages. I was hoping to get all of @System packages into the tree. This move in the opposite direction. So, has there been any attempt to get these patches upstream?

I dug threw upstream bugzilla and see no open bugs for the issue with any of the branches.

[anarchpenguin]

https://bugs.python.org/issue21622

[LinuxUserGD]

similar issue: #451