`--enable-shared` is required by Pyinstaller

[ikus060]

According to PyInstaller pyinstaller/pyinstaller#6066 (comment) manylinux images could not be used to create redistributable package compatible with many linux distribution because the python provided within the images are not compiled with --enable-shared

Mostly a question or a feature request, what would be the properly way to have a "manylinux" image with --enable-shared ?

[mayeut]

This was done intentionnaly for building wheels which is the use-case of manylinux images.
c.f. #255 (comment) & #30 for more details.

If I'm not mistaken, the use-case for pyinstaller only requires 1 python installation to create the "app" package.
This can be done in a "manylinux" friendly way by installing python3-devel on a CentOS base image.
CentOS 7 (base image for manylinux2014) provides 2 versions of python3:

• 3.6.8 through yum install python3-devel
• 3.8.6 through yum install rh-python38-python-devel (you need to enable scl-rh repo for this one: yum -y install centos-release-scl-rh)

IMHO, this is the best option for pyinstaller. It also allows not to waste bandwidth/ci time using images that are larger than necessary.

[ikus060]

Thanks alot for the information.

Will use manylinux2014 base image and install the required devel package to make it work.