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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
index 712216f491..a9b04a2d5b 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/python/package.py
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ class Python(AutotoolsPackage):
)
# --enable-shared is known to cause problems for some users on macOS
+ # This is a problem for Python 2.7 only, not Python3
# See http://bugs.python.org/issue29846
- variant('shared', default=sys.platform != 'darwin',
+ variant('shared', default=True,
description='Enable shared libraries')
# From https://docs.python.org/2/c-api/unicode.html: Python's default
# builds use a 16-bit type for Py_UNICODE and store Unicode values