Shared libraries didn't quite work under AIX because of the change in
status of the GNU readline interface. Here's a patch, by Vladimir
Marangozov.
diff --git a/Python/importdl.c b/Python/importdl.c
index 3f715de..fffe265 100644
--- a/Python/importdl.c
+++ b/Python/importdl.c
@@ -599,6 +599,17 @@
ldiptr = (struct ld_info *)ldibuf;
prevmodptr = NULL;
do {
+ if (strstr(ldiptr->ldinfo_filename, "python") == NULL) {
+ /*
+ -- Extract only the modules containing "python" as a
+ -- substring, like the "python[version]" executable or
+ -- "libpython[version].a" in case python is embedded.
+ */
+ offset = (unsigned int)ldiptr->ldinfo_next;
+ ldiptr = (struct ld_info *)((unsigned int)
+ ldiptr + offset);
+ continue;
+ }
if ((modptr = (ModulePtr)malloc(sizeof(Module))) == NULL) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ImportError, strerror(errno));
while (*modlistptr) {