Re: lang/python27 on macOS 11.0.1/arm ("Apple Silicon")

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-12-28 at 17:32 GMT, Mark Felder wrote:

> Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > The attached trivial patch makes it build, but then packaging
> > fails because lib_dynload/{bz2,zlib}.so are missing.
> 
> Installing devel/zlib and archivers/bzip2 before building python27
> on the M1 fixes this. Unsure how/why these aren't being picked up
> from the base OS on the M1. Perhaps Apple isn't shipping headers for
> these anymore or something else is going on when running on aarch64.

PREFER_PKGSRC=yes is basically mandatory on Big Sur.  There is no
builtin support for system libraries after Apple removed the shared
library files.

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