As discussed at [1] we have received reports that the implicit check
using cffi.FFI().verify() is not reliable in all environments. Since
we already use pkg-config, and the python dev package should include a
.pc file [2], add an extra check using pkg-config.  On at least
Debian, we have to know which version of python dev files with are
looking for, so calculate that first.

[1]: id:87im1g35ey.fsf@tethera.netid:87im1g35ey.fsf@tethera.net,
[2]: checked on Debian and Fedora
---
 configure | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4262d122..fc9512f9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -777,7 +777,23 @@ fi
 
 have_python3_cffi=0
 have_python3_pytest=0
+have_python3_dev=0
 if [ $have_python3 -eq 1 ]; then
+    printf "Checking for python3 version ..."
+    python3_version=$("$python" -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_version());')
+    printf "(%s)\n" $python3_version
+
+    printf "Checking for python $python3_version development files..."
+    if pkg-config --exists "python-$python3_version"; then
+	have_python3_dev=1
+	printf "Yes.\n"
+    else
+	have_python3_dev=0
+        printf "No (will not install CFFI-based python bindings).\n"
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [ $have_python3_dev -eq 1 ]; then
     printf "Checking for python3 cffi and setuptools... "
     if "$python" -c 'import cffi,setuptools; cffi.FFI().verify()' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
         printf "Yes.\n"
-- 
2.33.0
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