The patch causes no problems for me, but then I'm not using Mac OS X 

If there are no objections I'll apply the patch and commit.

Regards,
Jim

Graham Dumpleton (JIRA) wrote:
>     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/brows...r />
_12316435 ]
>
> Graham Dumpleton commented on MODPYTHON-65:
> -------------------------------------------
>
> The problem here is that on Mac OS X, distutils compiles Python
> loadable modules in a way that expects all symbols to be resolvable
> at the time the module is created. That is, all symbols must be present
> in either the objects being linked into the module or in libraries which
> are explicitly linked with the module.
>
> In a scenario like mod_python where there will be undefined references
> to symbols which are only defined within the executable running the
> interpreter into which the module is loaded, this will fail.
>
> Previously this wasn't a problem because distutils wasn't used to
> create the module and instead the makefile use libtool to do it. One of
> the options to libtool was "--silent". This option (at least I think so, i
t may
> be a different option), would underneath pass appropriate options to
> the linker for a platform to disable undefined symbols causing an error.
>
> Since distutils is now used, there is going to have to be platform specifi
c
> hacks to add additional options to the link line when creating a module
> to add these platform specific options. This however is not as simple as
> defining extra_link_flags to the distutils extension object as they will o
nly
> be placed at the end. These magic options tend to be positional
> dependent and need to be included at a specific spot early in the
> link line. The distutils package does not give you this level of control
> through its public APIs and thus a hack is required which delves into
> its private parts. If distutils changes, like it did from 2.2 to 2.3, this
 hack
> will break and no longer work.
>
> This problem may affect other platforms besides MacOSX as there are
> other platforms that also require specific options to ignore undefined
> symbols.
>
> Anyway, the hack required to get this to work for Mac OS X with Python 2.3
> is as follows. If you know of a better way, by all means let me know. :-)
>
> Index: dist/setup.py.in
>  ========================================
===========================
> --- dist/setup.py.in    (revision 220194)
> +++ dist/setup.py.in    (working copy)
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
>      """returns apache lib directory"""
>      apache_srcdir = getapache_srcdir()
>      if apache_srcdir is None:
> -        return ""
> +        return getapxs_option("LIBDIR")
>      else:
>          return os.path.join(apache_srcdir, "lib")
>
> @@ -153,6 +153,17 @@
>      scripts = []
>      data_files = []
>
> +import string
> +from distutils import sysconfig
> +
> +if sys.platform == "darwin":
> +    sysconfig._config_vars["LDSHARED"] = \
> +            string.replace(sysconfig.get_config_var("LDSHARED"), \
> +            " -bundle "," -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress ")
> +    sysconfig._config_vars["BLDSHARED"] = \
> +            string.replace(sysconfig.get_config_var("BLDSHARED"), \
> +            " -bundle "," -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress ")
> +
>  setup(name="mod_python",
>        version=VER,
>        description="Apache/Python Integration",
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> 
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nnobject.o build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Users/grahamd/Workspa
ces/mod_python/src/filterobject.o build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.
3/Users/grahamd/Workspaces/
mod_python/src/hlist.o build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Users/gra
hamd/Workspaces/mod_python/src/hlistobject.o build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_M
acintosh-2.3/Users/grahamd/Workspaces/mod_python/src/requestobject.o build/t
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ntosh-2.3/Users/grahamd/Workspaces/mod_python/src/serverobject.o build/temp.
darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Users/grahamd/Workspaces/m
od_python/src/tableobject.o build/temp.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/User
s/grahamd/Work
spaces/mod_python/src/util.o -L -lapr-0 -laprutil-0 -o build/lib.darwin-7.7.0-Power_Macintos
h-2.3/mod_python_so.so[vbcol=seagreen] 
>
>

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