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