least on Solaris (sometimes it's Unix98, sometimes it conforms to an
early draft).
Properly generate config.h.in using autoheader instead of editing it
manually; thanks, Guido!
Duzan, for AIX, to support C++ objects with static initializers, when
using the genuine IBM C++ compiler (namely xlC/xlC_r).
See accompanying patches to acconfig.h and importdl.c.
The following patches (relative to 1.5.2b1) enable Python dynamic
loading to work on NetBSD platforms that use ELF (presnetly mips and
alpha systems). They automaticly determine wether the system is ELF or
a.out rather than using astatic list of platforms so that when other
NetBSD platforms move to ELF, python will continue to work without
change.
Added AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *).
Added yet another test for pthreads (pthread_create may be in libc).
Added pthread_init to list of functions whose existence is checked.
(1) reorder the tests for -Olimit 1500 and -OPT:Olimit=0 so that the
latter test is performed first, and if it works, the former test is
skipped. This should get rid of the problem that the new SGI
compilers accept both but emit a warning about -Olimit 1500.
(2) The DGUX hack was somehow split in two by the Olimit tests,
probably as the result of a non-context diff. Moved this back
together again, after the Olimit tests.
it seems harmless for other platforms. It plays tricks with the name
of the library used to link with. Apparently DG/UX really wants a
shared library to link with if it wants shared modules to use symbols
from the library. I'm not sure why this wasn't an issue with 1.4;
DG/UX seems to be the only platform where moving to a single library
made things harder!
BTW This adds a target to create libpython$(VERSION).so; however this
target is *only* for DG/UX.
- add test for strptime (not used by the core but needed by Marc Lemburg's
Date object).
- Test for GNU ld on Solaris; need to add an extra linker option to
export symbols in that case.
enabled. This is done through a substitution in Modules/Setup.thread(.in).
Bill Janssen will be happy. The original idea was by Lele Gaifax (though
I changed the implementation to use a separate file).
from the main program to shared libraries. On mklinux, the old
'-rdynamic' doesn't work; the new '-Xlinker -export-dynamic' works
both there and on Intel Linux platforms.
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake