Re: Use of objcopy prevents prelink to work on Linux

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-15 03:38:36

Rene Rivera wrote:

> Markus Schöpflin wrote:

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>>BTW, I need prelink to relocate my python extension module, to allow it to 
>>cooperate with an external library that has a fixed location for a shared 
>>memory segment, which unfortunately collides with the standard location 
>>where the module is mapped when loaded by the python interpreter.

> Ah, so that's why it hasn't come up. Not many people have a need for 
> absolute object offsets. And when they do it's usually in C not C++. 
> Well to help you out I've already added a "--no-objcopy" option check to 
> gcc-tools.jam. SO at least you can get around it. We'll have to 
> investigate if we really need objcopy in BBv2 in the future.

Yes, you guessed right, it's an interface to a fairly low-level C-API. ;-) 
Thanks for the option, that's exactly what I need right now.

Markus