[Python-Dev] Python modules should link to libpython

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 8-feb-2006, at 16:47, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

> gjc:/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload$ ldd itertools.so
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002aaaaabcc000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaace2000)
>         /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)
> gjc:/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload$
>
> It seems that Python C extension modules are not linking explicitly to
> libpython.  Yet, they explicitly reference symbols defined in  
> libpython.
> When libpython is loaded in a global scope all is fine.  However, when
> libpython is dlopen()ed with the RTLD_LOCAL flag, python C extensions
> always get undefined symbols.
>
>   This problem happened recently with the nautilus-python package,  
> which
> installs an extension for the Nautilus file manager that allows
> extensions in Python.  For performance reasons, it now opens  
> extensions
> with RTLD_LOCAL flag, thus breaking python extensions.
>
>   Any thoughts?  Should I go ahead and open a bug report (maybe with
> patch), or is this controversial?

I don't know about Linux, but on OSX we don't link with libpython
(or Python.framework) on purpose: this allows you to share extensions  
between
several builds of the same version of Python. If you do link with  
libpython
and extension that was compiled by a python installed at a different  
location
will result in having two copies of libpython in memory, only one of  
which
is initialized. You end up with very interesting crashes.

Ronald

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