Bug report

Bug description:

When I build Python 3.12.11 from source code on Linux, the result includes 2 copies of the libpython3.12.a file which is about 56 megabytes in size!

File locations

• <prefix>/lib/libpython3.12.a
• <prefix>/lib/python3.12/config-3.12-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.12.a

I presume one of those is supposed to be a symbolic link to the other, or maybe the entire <prefix>/lib/python3.12/config-3.12-x86_64-linux-gnu directory is not supposed to be included in the installation?

Is this something that everyone is experiencing, or am I likely doing something wrong that is causing this to happen for me?

CPython versions tested on:

3.12

Operating systems tested on:

Linux