Pierre Baillargeon schrieb: > Currently, many 64-bits Oses cannot uses the dlmodule due to the conflicts > between the sizes of int, long and char *. That is well. The check is made as > run-time, which is also very well. > > The problem is that the Python configuration script (setup.py) also makes the > check and plainly excludes dlmodule.c from being built and deployed. That is > not > so well. > > The reason is that we use the dlmodule solely to get access to the various > flags > (RTLD_NOW, RTLD_GLOBAL, etc), so that we can do some magic with loaded shared > libraries, such as over-ridding the import mechanism so that the default load > flags get changed (via sys.setdlopenflags()) to force some semantics. > > Currently this doesn't work on most 64-bits OSes because the dl module doesn't > exists, so it cannot be imported and its RTLD_* symbols are not accessible. > > So I ask if it would be possible that the test for sys.maxint == 0x7fffffff in > setup.py be dropped in future releases.
I don't know if your patch is acceptable or not, but if it is applied Lib/test/test_dl.py crashes on 64-bit platforms, so this must be changed as well. Further, patches should be uploaded to the SF tracker so they don't get lost or forgotten. OTOH, the RTLD_ constants are possibly available in the DLFCN module, as the documentation explains. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
