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Title: HP-UX: ld -Wl,+b...
Type: behavior Stage: resolved
Components: Distutils Versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 2.7
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Status: closed Resolution: out of date
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: akuchling, jabt, loewis, tarek
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2007-01-31 13:57 by jabt, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg31145 - (view) Author: Johannes Abt (jabt) Date: 2007-01-31 13:57
On HP-UX 11.* (here: 11.23), configure chooses "ld -b" for extension modules like unicodedata.so.

My $LDFLAGS contains instructions like "-Wl,+b<path>"
(run-time search path for shared libs). This is correct, because LDFLAGS should be passed to the compiler.

distutils compiles the extension modules with "cc" (I need to use the native compiler), then it links with

ld -b $(LDFLAGS) -I.... ...

These means that options like -Wl, and -I<include-path> are passed to the linker!

To solve this problem quickly, I propose to modify configure. If LDSHARED="cc -b", Python 2.5 compiles.

Though this works very godd with with current HP-UX compilers, it does not work with ancient HP-UX compiler suites. Maybe there should be a test in configure in order to see if LDSHARED works.

If you really want to support old HP-UX compilers,
distutils should not 
- pass $LDFLAGS containing "-Wl," to "ld" nor 
- call the linker with -I<includepath>.



This is the current state of the linker call:
ld -b -L/usr/local/python/2.5/lib/hpux32 -Wl,+b,/usr/local/python/2.5/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/devel/readline/5.1-static/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -L/usr/local/devel/readline/5.1-static/lib/hpux32 -Wl,+b,/usr/local/devel/readline/5.1-static/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -Wl,+b,/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -L/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/lib/hpux32 -Wl,+b,/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/lib/hpux32:/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -L/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib -Wl,+b,/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -L/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -Wl,+b,/usr/local/lib/hpux32 -I. -I/soft/python/python-2.5/Python-2.5/Include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/devel/berkeleydb/4.3.29-static/include -I/usr/local/devel/bzip-1.0.3/include -I/usr/local/ssl/include -I/usr/local/devel/readline/5.1-static/include build/temp.hp-ux-B.11.23-ia64-2.5/soft/python/python-2.5/Python-2.5/Modules/readline.o -L/usr/lib/termcap -L/usr/local/python/2.5/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lreadline -o build/lib.hp-ux-B.11.23-ia64-2.5/readline.so
msg31146 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2007-01-31 22:00
I personally wouldn't have any issues with breaking old HPUX installations if that helps current ones.
msg240937 - (view) Author: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) * (Python committer) Date: 2015-04-14 16:32
No activity on this issue since 2007; HP-UX 11.23 was released in 2003. Closing as outdated.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:22adminsetgithub: 44527
2015-04-14 16:32:12akuchlingsetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + akuchling
messages: + msg240937

resolution: out of date
stage: resolved
2010-09-16 19:57:18BreamoreBoysetversions: + Python 3.2, - Python 2.6, Python 3.0
2009-02-11 07:22:20akitadasetnosy: + tarek
type: behavior
versions: + Python 2.6, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 2.7, - Python 2.5
2007-01-31 13:57:41jabtcreate