Create custom build_ext for correct rpath linking on mac
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Workaround
distutilsbug 36353; see https://bugs.python.org/issue36353. On MacOS, thebuild_ext--rpathoption is getting converted to-Lrather than-Wl,-rpath=. This change sub-classesbuild_extand correctly passes appropriate rpath options to clang linker.Snippet from
distutils.unixccompiler.py:Workaround code taken from python/cpython#12418.