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+export STAGING_INCDIR
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+
+# LDSHARED is the ld *command* used to create shared library
+export LDSHARED  = "${CCLD} -shared"
+# LDXXSHARED is the ld *command* used to create shared library of C++
+# objects
+export LDCXXSHARED  = "${CXX} -shared"
+# CCSHARED are the C *flags* used to create objects to go into a shared
+# library (module)
+export CCSHARED  = "-fPIC -DPIC"
+# LINKFORSHARED are the flags passed to the $(CC) command that links
+# the python executable
+export LINKFORSHARED = "${SECURITY_CFLAGS} -Xlinker -export-dynamic"
+
+FILES:${PN} += "${libdir}/* ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*"
+
+FILES:${PN}-staticdev += "\
+  ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*.a \
+"
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "\
+  ${datadir}/pkgconfig \
+  ${libdir}/pkgconfig \
+  ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*.la \
+"
+python __anonymous() {
+    bb.warn("distutils-common-base.bbclass is deprecated, please use setuptools3-base.bbclass instead")
+}