Merged revisions 63395-63396,63511,63522-63523 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r63395 | thomas.heller | 2008-05-16 22:06:31 +0200 (Fr, 16 Mai 2008) | 4 lines Issue 1793: Add ctypes.util.find_msvcrt() function (on Windows). ........ r63396 | thomas.heller | 2008-05-16 22:19:07 +0200 (Fr, 16 Mai 2008) | 4 lines Very simple test for ctypes.util.find_library on Windows. ........ r63511 | thomas.heller | 2008-05-20 21:53:47 +0200 (Di, 20 Mai 2008) | 6 lines 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. ........ r63522 | thomas.heller | 2008-05-21 20:47:02 +0200 (Mi, 21 Mai 2008) | 2 lines The -x <test1[,test2...]> flag allows to exclude tests. ........ r63523 | thomas.heller | 2008-05-21 21:47:44 +0200 (Mi, 21 Mai 2008) | 2 lines Oops, get_tests may be called with 3 arguments. ........

--- a/setup.py	Fri May 23 05:05:57 2008 +0000
+++ b/setup.py	Fri May 23 17:26:46 2008 +0000
@@ -1408,6 +1408,9 @@
             # 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,