From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:42:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add some commentary on -mimpure-text.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5c1~104
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73f12a33f7fffb820cb90487ba962598c0f0d275;p=python

Add some commentary on -mimpure-text.
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1ee370a401..5d711819e0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1369,6 +1369,14 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
 ##            extra_link_args.extend(['-read_only_relocs', 'warning'])
 
         elif sys.platform == 'sunos5':
+            # XXX This shouldn't be necessary; it appears that some
+            # of the assembler code is non-PIC (i.e. it has relocations
+            # when it shouldn't. The proper fix would be to rewrite
+            # the assembler code to be PIC.
+            # This only works with GCC; the Sun compiler likely refuses
+            # this option. If you want to compile ctypes with the Sun
+            # compiler, please research a proper solution, instead of
+            # finding some -z option for the Sun compiler.
             extra_link_args.append('-mimpure-text')
 
         ext = Extension('_ctypes',