problem with FFT module from Numeric 20.2.0

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:05:35PM +0000, Nick Efford wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 09:37:36 -0500,
> P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <dradul at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The solution is to be explicit. Edit your file 
> > /usr/local/lib/python21/config/Makefile in the appropriate places (3,  I 
> > don't recall their names off-had) to pass -R linker flags to ld. For 
> > example, I have added this in our lab box:
> > 
> >  -R/usr/lib -R/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/ssl/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib
> > 
> > Without these linker flags modules like socket and pyexpat won't work at 
> > all if called from restricted execution environments where you don't 
> > want a full environemnt definition, namely CGI's and batch jobs.
> > 
> 
> I'm working on Linux; do problems of this nature affect Linux
> also, or are they a Solaris-only thing?

It's not necessary on Linux -- it's due to differences in the way the
Solaris linking process works (for a suitably loose definition of
"works" :) ).

Cheers,
Malcolm

-- 
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.