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The SC agreed to add the arch-specific abi3t .so filename. .abi3t.so should always be there.
we should do the same for abi3 as for abi3t. (I talked with the RM and a SC member & they agree; if anyone wants an official clarification from the SC, ask them.)

I'll update & merge this PR.

This change adds the following strings to importlib.machinery.EXTENSION_SUFFIXES on a regular build:

• Emscripten: .abi3-wasm32-emscripten.so and .abi3t-wasm32-emscripten.so
• macOS: .abi3-darwin.so and .abi3t-darwin.so
• Ubuntu (x86-64): .abi3-x86_64-linux-gnu.so and .abi3t-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
• WASI: .abi3-wasm32-wasi.so and .abi3t-wasm32-wasi.so

no new string is added on these platforms:

• FreeBSD
• Windows

So, I primarily care about Linux here, that's where the pain is. And that's probably the platform where working with multiple architectures is the most common.

To me the addition makes sense and is potentially useful on all of those platforms (FreeBSD and Windows too). But figuring out the details for this all would probably take some time. We could restrict it to Linux only to get this merged now.

Fat binaries are common on macOS, but you'd only build one at a time, and combine them into a fat binary.

This change adds the following strings to importlib.machinery.EXTENSION_SUFFIXES on a regular build:

Maybe we're overthinking this. These platforms already have the additional .so extension suffix, we're just doing the same for abi3 and abi3t.

To me the addition makes sense and is potentially useful on all of those platforms (FreeBSD and Windows too).

Currently, we don't support the "platform triplet" on FreeBSD (same on OpenBSD or NetBSD).

The PLATFORM_TRIPLET variable in configure.ac is set by:

AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the platform triplet based on compiler characteristics])
if $CPP $CPPFLAGS $srcdir/Misc/platform_triplet.c >conftest.out 2>/dev/null; then
  PLATFORM_TRIPLET=`grep '^PLATFORM_TRIPLET=' conftest.out | tr -d '    '`
  PLATFORM_TRIPLET="${PLATFORM_TRIPLET@%:@PLATFORM_TRIPLET=}"
  AC_MSG_RESULT([$PLATFORM_TRIPLET])
else
  AC_MSG_RESULT([none])
fi
rm -f conftest.out

But on FreeBSD, Misc/platform_triplet.c fails to compile:

vstinner@freebsd$ cc -E Misc/platform_triplet.c | grep '^PLATFORM_TRIPLET=' | tr -d ' '
Misc/platform_triplet.c:289:3: error: unknown platform triplet
  289 | # error unknown platform triplet
      |   ^
1 error generated.

Maybe we should explore the ./config.guess option:

vstinner@freebsd$ ./config.guess
x86_64-unknown-freebsd15.0

The commit d3899c1 of issue gh-67169 in 2015 introduced PLATFORM_TRIPLET variable and modified SOABI to use it. The change is part of Python 3.5.

Result of import sysconfig; sysconfig.get_config_var('SOABI'):

• Python 3.4: 'cpython-34dm'
• Python 3.5: 'cpython-35dm-x86_64-linux-gnu'

Since the point of the feature is to have different .so names for different platforms, i think:

• adding -darwin or wasm32-wasi is correct.
• the fact that nothing is added for FreeBSD is a (low-priority) bug. We can fix it in the future (for cpython-3XX files as well as abi3 ones).
• Windows uses .pyd instead; changing that would be a different feature.

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Let's get it in then.

Thanks @stefanor for the PR, and @encukou for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.15.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

GH-154772 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch.