Does not work with a shared libpython3.so on run-time search path

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#79 opened on Nov 3, 2022 5 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the shared-library failure with the installer command and inspect the installer code around the reported run and main locations (lines 552 and 919). Done means the installer completes successfully when Python uses a shared libpython3.so found through its runtime search path.

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Description

I'm using the CPython configure flags --enable-shared with an rpath interpolation (LDFLAGS). Linux platform (RHEL 8.3).

The interpreter's stdlib venv works just fine, but poetry installer doesn't like something about that config

$ readelf -d /usr/local/bin/python3.11 | grep rpath
 0x000000000000000f (RPATH)              Library rpath: [$ORIGIN/../lib]
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/python3.11 | grep libpython
	libpython3.11.so.1.0 => /usr/local/bin/../lib/libpython3.11.so.1.0 (0x00007ffff7632000)
$ curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | /usr/local/bin/python3.11 -
Retrieving Poetry metadata

# Welcome to Poetry!

This will download and install the latest version of Poetry,
a dependency and package manager for Python.

It will add the `poetry` command to Poetry's bin directory, located at:

/home/wglenn/.local/bin

You can uninstall at any time by executing this script with the --uninstall option,
and these changes will be reverted.

Installing Poetry (1.2.2): An error occurred. Removing partial environment.
Poetry installation failed.
See /home/wglenn/git/python/poetry-installer-error-t8owbf6b.log for error logs.

The log:

$ cat /home/wglenn/git/python/poetry-installer-error-t8owbf6b.log
/home/wglenn/.local/share/pypoetry/venv/bin/python3.11: error while loading shared libraries: libpython3.11.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Traceback:

  File "<stdin>", line 919, in main
  File "<stdin>", line 552, in run

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