Disagreement between pkg-config python and python-config

[Zygmunt Krynicki]

I've found a disagreement between:

$ python-config --libs
-lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lpython2.7

and

$ pkg-config python --static --libs
-lpthread -ldl -lutil -lpython2.7

It seems to me that pkg-config is missing is missing -lm. The full list of packages is also larger than specified here. An attempt to embed python interpreter in a hello-world library will fail with multiple linkage issues due to missing openssl, libz and a few other things.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: python-dev 2.7.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 19 19:37:50 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120218)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: python-defaults
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

see the upstream issue.

For now to build an embedded interpreter, use SYSLIBS and MODLIBS directly (sysconfig.get_config_var)