Thomas,

I tried to build Python from cvs (svn rev 50905) on
Solaris 10 today.
Compiler was gcc 3.4.  I got a text relocation error
when linking
ctypes.so:

/opt/app/g++lib6/gcc-3.4/bin/gcc -shared
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/stgdict.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/malloc_closure.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/prep_cif.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/unix64.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.o
-L/usr/local/lib -o
build/lib.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/_ctypes.so
Text relocation remains                         referenced
    against symbol                  offset      in file
ffi_closure_SYSV_inner              0x8e       
build/temp.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.5/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.o
ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but
non-writable sections
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I tried configuring both with and without the
--with-system-ffi flag.
The error was the same in both cases.

If you need more information, let me know.

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