C++ extention

[Jesper Olsen]

I don't know why
jolsen at mail2world.com (Jesper Olsen) wrote in message news:<6b17fa95.0311180136.723d51b2 at posting.google.com>...
> I have a python extention implemented in C/C++
> - the extention itself is internally implemented in C++, but
> the interface is pure C, so that it can easily be called from
> a python C-wrapper.
> 
> The extention is compiled with distutils, and this has worked
> well in both Windows and Linux environments.
> 
> Now, however, I get an 
> 
> undefined symbol _ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE
> 
> when I try to import the extention on Linux (only linux).
> 
> I think this has happened after gcc was upgraded to gcc 3.2.2
> 
> Has anyone seen this? What could be the problem?
> 
> Jesper

I don't know why this tedious problem has cropped up with the new
gcc - but anyway I have fixed it now by "manually" forcing it to
choose g++ as the linker - on linux platforms.
It would be nice if distutils could take care of this itself...

Jesper