C extensions on Reliant UNIX?

[Daniel Dittmar]

Has anyone been successful at writing Python extensions using shared objects
on Reliant UNIX?

When I import the module, I get the following error:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: ld.so: python: relocation error: symbol not found: PyType_Type

nm on the executable:

bash-2.01$ nm /usr/local/bin/python | grep PyType_Type
[2020]  |   5175596|     108|  D  |GLOB |0    |13     |PyType_Type

which means that it's obviously defined in the python executable.

nm on the shared object:

[Index]   Value      Size    Type  Bind  Other Shndx   Name
[952]   |         0|       0|  U  |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |PyType_Type
[953]   |    118172|       0|  U  |GLOB |0    |UNDEF  |Py_BuildValue

The funny thing is that the Value is defined for imported functions like
Py_BuildValue, but is zero for all imported global variables.

The compiler is
CDR9992: CDS++ Version 02.0C00
CDR9993: Copyright (C) Fujitsu Siemens ComputersGmbH 2000.
CDR9994: All rights reserved.
CDR9908: cc: Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH: CDS++ V2.0C0003, 1.2.7.2 from
29 Jun 2000

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Daniel

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Daniel Dittmar
daniel.dittmar at sap.com
SAPLabs Berlin