it seems harmless for other platforms. It plays tricks with the name
of the library used to link with. Apparently DG/UX really wants a
shared library to link with if it wants shared modules to use symbols
from the library. I'm not sure why this wasn't an issue with 1.4;
DG/UX seems to be the only platform where moving to a single library
made things harder!
BTW This adds a target to create libpython$(VERSION).so; however this
target is *only* for DG/UX.
- add test for strptime (not used by the core but needed by Marc Lemburg's
Date object).
- Test for GNU ld on Solaris; need to add an extra linker option to
export symbols in that case.
enabled. This is done through a substitution in Modules/Setup.thread(.in).
Bill Janssen will be happy. The original idea was by Lele Gaifax (though
I changed the implementation to use a separate file).
from the main program to shared libraries. On mklinux, the old
'-rdynamic' doesn't work; the new '-Xlinker -export-dynamic' works
both there and on Intel Linux platforms.