How to disable RTLD_NOW for Python 2.7.x dlopen() in Mac OS X Mavericks?

[Tat-Chee Wan]

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:44:44 AM UTC+8, Ned Deily wrote:
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> I'm not very familiar with ctypes internals but it looks like 
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> sys.setdlopenflags is not intended to have an influence on ctypes; rather, it 
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> conditions the Python interpreter's use of dlopen to load shared Python 
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> modules.  For ctypes itself, it looks like it unconditionally sets RTLD_NOW 
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> when calling dlopen and probably with good reason:
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> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c#l1432
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Ah, thanks for the link. I couldn't figure out where the RTLD_NOW flag was set.

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> Sorry, I don't have a suggestion for you, assuming you want to just try to 
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> ignore the error, other than perhaps running an older version of OS X in a VM 
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> on 10.8.

That's not an option for me unfortunately. Guess I'll have to look into other alternatives to solve the missing symbol problem.

T. C.