Re: [Orbit-python-list] Undefined Symbol POAManager_PyObject_Type

[Jade M. <ja...@gn...>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:34:36PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> Jade Meskill (2001-01-17 10:16:45 -0700) :
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:45:48PM -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> [...]
> > > Christian Reis (on Dec 4) reported the problem was due to Python not
> > > passing RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen().  RedHat packages a patched version, and
> > > since I used that, I never noticed the problem.  He included a patch as
> > > well, if you want to check the archives.
> > 
> > Hrm... I must've missed that posting. :( I will take another look
> > and see if I can recommend a patch to debian also.  Do you know if
> > this has been fixed in later versions of Python (1.6 or 2.0)?
> 
>   There has been a message in the debian-python explaining that this
> RTLD_GLOBAL "bug" was in fact not one.  See it in the archive at
> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-python-0101/msg00058.html>
> 

Ah OK.  What the message suggests was what I was going to suggest next, basically you have to make a library that shares the common bits between CORBAmodule and PortableServermodule and link them to that library.  This would be the most correct approach anyways IMHO, as it doesn't rely on patching python at all.

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