Loading modules on a DEC - error

[Randall Hopper]

Does anyone have some tips for building a Python C module on a DEC?

This is code that works just fine as a module on SGI and Solaris.
So it could be due to DEC's dlopen ideosyncracies.

Randall


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> uname -s -p -r -v -m
OSF1 V4.0 386 alpha

> ld -shared  -rpath /home/rhh/test -L/home/rhh/test \
  -o A.so TMP/*.o \
  -lXext -lXm -lXt -lX11 -lfor -lUfor -lots -lm -lrpcsvc -lc -lm

> ld -shared  -rpath /home/rhh/test -L/home/rhh/test \
  -o Bc.so Bc_wrap.o \
  A.so -lXext -lXm -lXt -lX11  -lfor -lUfor \
  -lots -lm  -lc;  rm -f so_locations


> file Bc.so 
Bc.so:      COFF format alpha shared library, demand paged executable \
or object module not stripped - version 3.11-10 

> python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, May 20 1999, 13:33:13) [C] on osf1V4
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam

>>> import Bc
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: dlopen: cannot load ./Bc.so
>>> 
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