On 8/13/18 10:28 AM, Jayesh Badwaik via arch-general wrote:
I've noticed that the include paths for python 3 are updated according to the version of python being installed. This removes some stability for custom programs which build against python (example boost.python). It would be nice if there was a symlink version of python include paths to a stable location like `/usr/include/python3`.
This will never happen. If you're not using `pkg-config --cflags python3` then you're doing it wrong. End of story. Source code that doesn't know how to use pkg-config to find the versioned include path in /usr/include also won't be able to find it in $HOME/dev/python/include/python3.7m or whatever complex development environments lots of people tend to use. Patching one cherry-picked linux distro in order to fix one specific workflow in one programming language and one software dependency, seems rather inefficient. Learn to love pkg-config, it's quite fantastic. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User