Shared libpython (was Re: Embedding python in .so, /libpython2.2.a not position independent (hp-ux)??

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Ville Vainio wrote:
> So, would I be severely punished for forcing gcc to compile all objs
> to -fPIC by putting that option to OPT variable of the ./configure'd

   I don't think so. I think you'll get minor performance penalty, but
pretty minor (2%). Well, I know only Linux and Solaris, so beware.

> Makefile? Afterwards, I would extreact all the objs w/ ar and
> repackage them in a shared library. Does this break any modules? I'm
> concerned about xml.dom.minidom (which uses expat) in particular.

   Should not break anything.

Oleg.
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