On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:10:41PM -0800, John Pye wrote: > > As you see, we're only using the dl module to give us the values of > some constants, before then going on and using the standard python > 'import' command. We are *not* using the dl module to perform dlopen > calls. The values of these constants are, in general, platform > specific. > I thought you were using it to actually load libraries. That's what I get for talking about I things of which I have no knowledge :-) > Why the length of various data types should preclude the 'dl' module > being available on AMD64, I'm not quite clear. I think that instead of > disabling 'dl' altogether in Python, the Debian build of Python 2.4 > should *definitely* still make 'dl' available, but with with limited > functionality if there is a problem with getting some aspect to work. > I'm not sure that's such a good idea. It would be a serious departure from upstream. If I were maintaining Debian's Python packages, I would reject such an idea. > Looks like my only option is to implement another non-standard module > that provides the RTLD_GLOBAL etc values and import than in place of > the 'dl' module. Now *that* is an ugly hack. > Agreed. That is ugly. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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