gh-99370: Prefer LIBDIR from sysconfig when locating libpython for test (GH-99523)
(cherry picked from commit 7c57857340befcb90394bc347c904ca62049b684)
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_venv.py b/Lib/test/test_venv.py
index 9e23cdf..86ce60f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_venv.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_venv.py
@@ -594,7 +594,9 @@
# For python built with shared enabled. We need to set
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH so the non-installed python can find and link
# libpython.so
- ld_library_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))
+ ld_library_path = sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDIR")
+ if not ld_library_path or sysconfig.is_python_build():
+ ld_library_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
ld_library_path_env = "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
else:
