On HPUX, -fPIC must be used for linking. _ctypes now builds on HP-UX
IA64 and PA machines.
The ctypes unittests work fine on the IA64, but dump core in
test_qsort on the PA.
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in
index 09c13db..f5f3810 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/fficonfig.py.in
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
'SH64': ['src/sh64/sysv.S', 'src/sh64/ffi.c'],
'PA': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
'PA_LINUX': ['src/pa/linux.S', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
+ 'PA_HPUX': ['src/pa/hpux32.s', 'src/pa/ffi.c'],
}
ffi_srcdir = '@srcdir@'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 34035ed..4663cec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1580,6 +1580,9 @@
# finding some -z option for the Sun compiler.
extra_link_args.append('-mimpure-text')
+ elif sys.platform.startswith('hpux'):
+ extra_link_args.append('-fPIC')
+
ext = Extension('_ctypes',
include_dirs=include_dirs,
extra_compile_args=extra_compile_args,