Comment 8 for bug 2002043

Hi Nafees,

I've discussed this case with our Engineering team and they are working on the SRU process to get this fix released, however this should take around 1 month before it gets published to -updates. Although we are prioritizing it, the fix still needs to go to the -proposed repository for QA / testing, before completing the SRU process, hence why the 1 month estimate (assuming that it doesn't hit a regression, that might delay things a bit more).

In the meantime, if a user is being impacted, although not really supported, they could modify the sysconfig.py file to "manually" fix it with the steps below:

1) open the following file: /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/sysconfig.py
2) change the following lines:

(cc, cxx, cflags, extra_cflags, basecflags,
ccshared, ldshared, so_ext, ar, ar_flags,
configure_cppflags, configure_cflags, configure_ldflags) = \
get_config_vars('CC', 'CXX', 'CFLAGS', 'EXTRA_CFLAGS', 'BASECFLAGS',
'CCSHARED', 'LDSHARED', 'SO', 'AR', 'ARFLAGS',
'CONFIGURE_CPPFLAGS', 'CONFIGURE_CFLAGS', 'CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS')

To:

(cc, cxx, cflags, extra_cflags, basecflags,
ccshared, ldshared, so_ext, ar, ar_flags,
configure_cppflags, configure_cflags, configure_ldflags, opt) = \
get_config_vars('CC', 'CXX', 'CFLAGS', 'EXTRA_CFLAGS', 'BASECFLAGS',
'CCSHARED', 'LDSHARED', 'SO', 'AR', 'ARFLAGS',
'CONFIGURE_CPPFLAGS', 'CONFIGURE_CFLAGS', 'CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS', 'OPT')

3) change the following lines:

elif configure_cflags:
cflags = ' '.join(str(x) for x in (basecflags, configure_cflags, extra_cflags) if x)
ldshared = ldshared + ' ' + configure_cflags
if 'CPPFLAGS' in os.environ:

To:

elif configure_cflags:
cflags = ' '.join(str(x) for x in (basecflags, opt ,configure_cflags, extra_cflags) if x)
ldshared = ldshared + ' ' + configure_cflags
if 'CPPFLAGS' in os.environ:

4) Thats it! After these changes the optimization should work fine on ARM as well as x86

Note: watch out for the indentation! Make sure the indentation is the same line per line as the line being replaced.

Please, let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Fabio Martins