Re: G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL broke nautilus-python extension

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 20:02 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:22:08 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> >   So it seems that the desktop wide decision to load all modules with
> > G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL, for performance reasons, may break python
> > extensions.  So far, nautilus-python was affected by this.  Do people
> > have any suggestions?  Clearly Python has to be fixed, but that is a
> > long term fix; how to fix things _now_?
> 
> Try calling dlopen("libpython.so.<whatever>", RTLD_GLOBAL) before calling
> into the interpreter. If you're lucky that'll force the symbols into
> global scope. If you're unlucky then you need to not link against
> libpython yourself but instead dlopen and dlsym the APIs you need, and
> hope that they actually exist (libpython does not have a stable ABI).

  This worked perfectly; thanks a lot! :-)

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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