From 499d389779f7881054ecd691db7ebea49eb5a492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gus Smith <gus@normalcomputing.ai>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 10:01:23 -0700
Subject: Improve makefile portability

---
 sources/api/pySoftMC/Makefile | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sources')

diff --git a/sources/api/pySoftMC/Makefile b/sources/api/pySoftMC/Makefile
index 0c1d241..b03b1a9 100644
--- a/sources/api/pySoftMC/Makefile
+++ b/sources/api/pySoftMC/Makefile
@@ -1,21 +1,19 @@
-# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4933285/how-to-determine-python-version-in-makefile
-python_version_full := $(wordlist 2,4,$(subst ., ,$(shell python3 --version 2>&1)))
-python_version := $(word 1,${python_version_full}).$(word 2,${python_version_full})
-
 program_NAME := pySoftMC
 program_CXX_SRCS := $(wildcard ../*.c) $(wildcard ../*.cpp) ./pySoftMC.cpp
 program_CXX_OBJS := ${program_CXX_SRCS:.cpp=.o}
 program_CXX_OBJS := ${program_CXX_OBJS:.c=.o}
 program_OBJS := $(program_CXX_OBJS)
 
-program_INCLUDE_DIRS := . .. /usr/include/python${python_version} ../ext/pybind11/include
+python_INCLUDE_FLAGS := $(shell python3-config --includes)
+program_INCLUDE_DIRS := . .. ../ext/pybind11/include
 program_LIBRARY_DIRS :=
-program_LIBRARIES := python${python_version}
+program_LIBRARIES :=
 CPPFLAGS += -g -std=c++14 -pthread -O3 -fPIC -Wall
 
-CPPFLAGS += $(foreach includedir,$(program_INCLUDE_DIRS),-I$(includedir)) -DPYSMC
+CPPFLAGS += $(foreach includedir,$(program_INCLUDE_DIRS),-I$(includedir)) $(python_INCLUDE_FLAGS) -DPYSMC
 LDFLAGS += $(foreach librarydir,$(program_LIBRARY_DIRS),-L$(librarydir))
 LDFLAGS += $(foreach library,$(program_LIBRARIES),-l$(library))
+LDFLAGS += $(shell python3-config --ldflags --embed 2>/dev/null || python3-config --ldflags)
 
 SHARED_LIB_FLAGS := -shared -fPIC 
 
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