Uvloop ./configure error could not determine link -lib inteface

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#695 opened on Oct 12, 2025 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: c, python
Domain: build-system

Research direction

Start with uvloop-0.21.0/setup.py, especially build_libuv, and reproduce ./configure in the reported Termux and Python 3.12 environment. Inspect the configure checks around the archiver interface; done means the build completes without the reported configure error.

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Description

supports -Wextra flag... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wno-long-long flag... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wno-unused-parameter flag... yes
checking if gcc supports -Wstrict-prototypes flag... yes
checking for ar... no
checking for lib... no
checking for link... link -lib
checking the archiver (link -lib) interface... unknown
configure: error: could not determine link -lib interface
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/uvloop/uvloop-0.21.0/setup.py", line 240, in
setup(
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 115, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 186, in setup
return run_commands(dist)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 202, in run_commands
dist.run_commands()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1002, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 1102, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/install.py", line 689, in run
self.run_command('build')
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 357, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 1102, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/build.py", line 135, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 357, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 1102, in run_command
super().run_command(command)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 1021, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", line 96, in run
_build_ext.run(self)
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 368, in run
self.build_extensions()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/uvloop/uvloop-0.21.0/setup.py", line 203, in build_extensions
self.build_libuv()
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/downloads/uvloop/uvloop-0.21.0/setup.py", line 178, in build_libuv
subprocess.run(
File "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 571, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./configure']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
~/.../uvloop/uvloop-0.21.0 $

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