'import dl' on AMD64 platform

[Nick Craig-Wood]

John Pye <john.pye at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a tricky situation that's preventing my Python/SWIG/C
>  application from running on the Debian Etch AMD64 platform.
> 
>  It seems that the 'dl' module is not available on that platform. The
>  only reason I need the 'dl' module, however, is for the values of
>  RTLD_LAZY etc, which I use with sys.setdlopenflags() in order to make
>  my imported SWIG module share its symbols correctly with more deeply-
>  nested plugin modiles in my C-code layer.
> 
>  I wonder if there is a workaround for this -- perhaps another way to
>  access the values of those RTLD flags?

Read stuff out of /usr/include/bits/dlfcn.h ?

It seems to be a constant 1 anyway

#define RTLD_LAZY       0x00001

You could try compiling the dl module by hand.

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