On HPUX, -fPIC must be used for linking. _ctypes now builds on HP-UX

thomas.heller · thomas.heller · commit 4e9999ff2baf · 2008-05-20T19:53:47.000Z
IA64 and PA machines. The ctypes unittests work fine on the IA64, but dump core in test_qsort on the PA. git-svn-id: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk@63511 6015fed2-1504-0410-9fe1-9d1591cc4771
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ ffi_platforms = {
     'SH64': ['src/sh64/sysv.S', 'src/sh64/ffi.c'],
     'PA': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
     'PA_LINUX': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
+    'PA_HPUX': ['src/pa/hpux32.s', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
 }
 
 ffi_srcdir = '@srcdir@'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -1580,6 +1580,9 @@ def detect_ctypes(self, inc_dirs, lib_dirs):
             # finding some -z option for the Sun compiler.
             extra_link_args.append('-mimpure-text')
 
+        elif sys.platform.startswith('hpux'):
+            extra_link_args.append('-fPIC')
+
         ext = Extension('_ctypes',
                         include_dirs=include_dirs,
                         extra_compile_args=extra_compile_args,

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ ffi_platforms = {`
`25`	`25`	`'SH64': ['src/sh64/sysv.S', 'src/sh64/ffi.c'],`
`26`	`26`	`'PA': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],`
`27`	`27`	`'PA_LINUX': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],`
	`28`	`+ 'PA_HPUX': ['src/pa/hpux32.s', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],`
`28`	`29`	`}`
`29`	`30`
`30`	`31`	`ffi_srcdir = '@srcdir@'`