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Chuck,
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:03:16PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> #1. Now use the auto-import stuff instead of __declspec(dllXXport)
> modifiers. No more need for *compile-time* flags at all; only linktime
> flags: -static or -Wl,--enable-auto-import. However, ncurses does some
> of the "bad" things (the ones that today's binutils warns about, but the
> previous binutils created buggy code for). The fix for this requires
> changes in the ncurses library code (specifically, configure using
> BROKEN_LINKER -- which changes some of the exported DATA into functions.
> If you recompile apps, you don't need to worry about this though; it's
^^^^
> transparently handled in ncurses_cfg.h/curses.h).
I submitted the attached patch in order for Python (specifically the
_cursesmodule module) to build cleanly again under the latest binutils.
The above seems to imply that I shouldn't need this patch. Did I
misinterpret the above?
Thanks,
Jason
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Modules/_cursesmodule.c,v
retrieving revision 2.60
diff -c -r2.60 _cursesmodule.c
*** _cursesmodule.c 2001/11/11 14:49:15 2.60
--- _cursesmodule.c 2001/11/12 03:32:58
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*** 112,117 ****
--- 112,121 ----
#define STRICT_SYSV_CURSES
#endif
+ #ifdef __CYGWIN__
+ #define BROKEN_LINKER 1
+ #endif
+
#define CURSES_MODULE
#include "py_curses.h"
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