I have a shared library, libfoo.so, that references another .so which isn't linked but instead loaded at runtime with myso=dlopen("/usr/local/lib/libbar.so", RTLD_NOW); when I try to load it with ctypes, the call hangs and I have to ctl-c.
(build)[dev]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin (build)[dev]$ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import ctypes >>> ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary ('/usr/local/lib/libfoo.so') <--- This call hangs >>> and have to ctl-C ^CTraceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 443, in LoadLibrary return self._dlltype(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 365, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) KeyboardInterrupt >>> My first thought was that It couldn't find libbar.so, but if I remove that file, python seg faults: /usr/local/lib/libbar.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directorySegmentation fault (core dumped), so it appears that it finds the dlopen() file but freezes waiting for ??? This is on ubuntu 14.4 server. C code is compiled with -std=gnu11 -Wall -Werror -m64 -march=x86-64 -mavx -g -fPIC I also get the same reaction on python3.4 Thanks in advance -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list