Dynamic loading on HP-UX 10 (yet again)

[vdcappel at imec.be]

   I had a problem with dynamically loading a module compiled with
 HP's ANSI C++ (aCC) compiler into python.  The dynamic loader couldn't
 find a symbol called __head, and indeed this symbol isn't defined in
 any library --- I expect a bug in the HP software.  However, __head is
 not even used anywhere, and therefore this patch to Python 1.5.2 works:

diff -u Python-1.5.2/Python/importdl.c Python-1.5.2_n/Python/importdl.c
--- Python-1.5.2/Python/importdl.c      Wed Jan 27 18:53:10 1999
+++ Python-1.5.2_new/Python/importdl.c  Wed Sep 22 14:05:03 1999
@@ -725,9 +725,9 @@
            shl_t lib;
            int flags;

-           flags = BIND_FIRST | BIND_DEFERRED;
+           flags = /* BIND_FIRST | */ BIND_DEFERRED;
            if (Py_VerboseFlag) {
-             flags = DYNAMIC_PATH | BIND_FIRST | BIND_IMMEDIATE |
+             flags = DYNAMIC_PATH | /* BIND_FIRST | */ BIND_IMMEDIATE |
                      BIND_NONFATAL | BIND_VERBOSE;
              printf("shl_load %s\n",pathname);
            }


   Has anyone else encountered the same problem?  Does this patch work
 for you?

   For the sake of completeness:
$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#6, Sep 22 1999, 14:05:17) [C] on hp-uxB
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>
$ uname -a
HP-UX yeti B.10.20 E 9000/879 unknown


   Happy,
   arnie.


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