On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:44:48AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
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|
| I then went and look at the source rpm. They have this patch in there:
|
| --- Python-1.5.2/Python/importdl.c.global Sat Jul 17 16:52:26 1999
| +++ Python-1.5.2/Python/importdl.c Sat Jul 17 16:53:19 1999
| @@ -441,13 +441,13 @@
| #ifdef RTLD_NOW
| /* RTLD_NOW: resolve externals now
| (i.e. core dump now if some are missing) */
| - void *handle = dlopen(pathname, RTLD_NOW);
| + void *handle = dlopen(pathname, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL);
| #else
| void *handle;
| if (Py_VerboseFlag)
| printf("dlopen(\"%s\", %d);\n", pathname,
| - RTLD_LAZY);
| - handle = dlopen(pathname, RTLD_LAZY);
| + RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
| + handle = dlopen(pathname, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
| #endif /* RTLD_NOW */
| if (handle == NULL) {
| PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ImportError, dlerror());
|
The only difference here is the addtion (via bitwise or-ing) of the
RTLD_GLOBAL flag. Check with some documentation and see what
RTLD_GLOBAL flag means and how it affects the dlopen functions. I
imagine this function is a part of glibc. Can anyone else help here?
-D
