freebsd extension problem

[Robin Becker]

In message <20010129141823.A1010242 at vislab.epa.gov>, Randall Hopper
<aa8vb at yahoo.com> writes
>Robin Becker:
> |I'm trying to build an extension which used to work with 1.5.2 unde
> |freebsd.
> |
> |I seem to be able to build the extension using the old
> |
> |make -f Makefile.pre.in boot method and have linked to various
> |libraries. However for some reason I'm getting a bad magic number error
> |when trying to import the module.
> |
> |I assume that this is somehow caused by a missing import. Is there an
> |easy way to find out what I'm missing?
>
>Potentially useful links below.  Could be that you have an ELF python and
>an AOUT module, or vice versa.  Run 'file' on each to see.  
>
>I assume these are FreeBSD binaries (not Linux under emulation).
>
>http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=704455585
>http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=704541401
>
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Thanks. The problem was exactly that. Overnight the ISP changed OS and
python etc etc resulting in a good deal of confusion. Thanks for the
kind thought any how.
-- 
Robin Becker