#!/bin/ksh ################################# # AIX shared library helper # ################################# # ======================================================================== # FILENAME: make_aix_so # MODULE FOR: standalone executable # PLATFORM: AIX (specific) # DESCRIPTION: Creates a shareable .o from a pre-compiled (unshared) # .o file # ARGUMENTS: Same as for "ld". The -bM, -bE, -bI, -H, -T, and -lc # arguments of "ld" will be supplied by this script. # NOTES: 1. Currently specific to the building of Python # interpreter shared objects, in that the entry # point name is hardcoded based on the object file # name (the "mathmodule.o" file will expect an # entry point of "initmath"). This could be remedied # by the support (or simple expectation) of a "-e" # argument. # 2. The resulting shared object file is left in the # current directory with the extension .so. It may # need to be changed to have a .o extension before # it is usable. (At least, Python expects it to # have the .o extension, but this is simply because # python wants it that way -- it COULD probably be # called anything at all). # HISTORY: Manus Hand (mhand@csn.net) -- Initial code -- 6/24/96 # ======================================================================== # ======================================================================== # SET UP VARIABLES FOR USE IN THIS SCRIPT # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Note that the setting of "entry" is Python-build specific. This script # is not general-purpose for that reason (although support for a "-e" # argument to it could be added, making it usable for any AIX application) # ======================================================================== objfile=$1 shift filename=`echo $objfile | sed -e "s:.*/\([^/]*\)$:\1:" -e "s/\..*$//"` entry=init`echo $filename | sed "s/module.*//"` ldargs="-e$entry -bE:$filename.exp -bM:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc $objfile $*" tmpfile=.py_$$ # ====================================================================== # EXPORT LIST GENERATION # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # For the Python modules, this COULD be much simpler, since we know the # only exported variable is ".$entry" ("entry" was assigned just above). # However, the approach used here for export file generation is more # generic and will support all .o's, not just properly formatted Python- # importable modules. Here is the rule: any "extern" symbol name which # appears in the # output of "nm" which IS resolved (i.e., which does # NOT have an address of zero) should go into the export list. Read # each line from a temp file containing these symbols. If it begins # with a dot, then add it to the list being built. If it does not, then # see if the same symbol, with the dot prepended, also appears in the # list. If so, DON'T include the current symbol (the one without the # prepended dot). # ====================================================================== exec 3>&1 1>$filename.exp echo "#!$objfile" nm $objfile | grep "|extern|" | grep -v " 0|extern|" | cut -f1 -d"|" > $tmpfile while read line ; do echo "$line" | cut -c1 | read prefix if [ "$prefix" = "." ]; then echo "$line" else grep "^\.$line" $tmpfile > /dev/null if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "$line" ; fi ; fi ; done < $tmpfile rm $tmpfile # =============================================================== # IMPORT LIST AND SHARED OBJECT FILE GENERATION # --------------------------------------------------------------- # Send all output to the to-be-built import file, starting it off # with the required "#!" line (which tells it in which loaded # binary these symbols are to be found at runtime). Then attempt # to ld the object using only the export list built above, and # hide the stderr output from "ld". If the ld fails with status # code 8 (and in the case of the Python modules, it always does, # since each need some symbols from the statically linked portion # of the interpreter), this is because an import list should be # given containing the symbols which are unresolved. The symbols # will have been sent to stdout as a side-effect of the failed ld # command, so by redirecting the stdout output, they will have # magically been put into the import file being built. Then we # simply call ld again with both the import and export lists. # =============================================================== exec 1>$filename.imp echo "#!python" ld $ldargs 2>/dev/null status=$? exec 1>&3 # ================================================================ # GUIDO: If you want to separate the generation of the import and # export lists from the creation of the .so file, here's where the # break should be made -- in my mail I mentioned that some of this # script belongs in the pre-static link stage of the make and some # belongs after it. As I said, here is the dividing line. Now, # of course, if there is a module which needs NO statically linked # symbols -- but then again, there can't be, because they all need # initmodule4() -- the "ld" which is ABOVE this line may actually # have succeeded, so the "if" below will fail, but of course, # if you separate the script at this point, you won't care about # such things. # ================================================================ if [ $status = 8 ] ; then ld $ldargs $filename.imp ; fi # ====================================================================== # GUIDO: Remember that at this point, the files (assuming you leave the # arguments to LDSHARED totally unchanged) are still named with a .so # extension. However, Python looks for them with a .o extension. You # can either change this in the core code (#ifdef _AIX) so that it looks # for an .so or you can do what I did, which is rename them to .o's when # they get mv'ed by the sharedinstall make rule. (Actually, I did it by # hand, but you'd do it in sharedinstall. # =======================================================================