WARNING: AIX and dynamic loading.
Konrad Hinsen
hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
Wed Apr 28 06:35:02 EDT 1999
Paul Duffin <pduffin at mailserver.hursley.ibm.com> writes:
> > PROBLEM:
> > If you copy the module to the PYTHONPATH directory using cp, the old
> > file gets overwritten, but keeps the same inode number. Apparently,
On my system (running AIX 4.3.1), it is *impossible* to overwrite
a shared library that has ever been loaded; all you get is an error
message claiming that the file is being used.
> > SOLUTION:
> > You makefile should remove the old module (the .so file) before copying the
> > new version into the installation directory. Then the file gets a new
This is what I had to do as well, in order to be able to copy a new
version. With that I never had any problems.
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