From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 05:38:05 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: Make symbols in loaded libraries global.
X-Git-Tag: lca2016~117
X-Git-Url: http://git.neil.brown.name/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2ba05f4623815a381f40bcc69bcac18f654a360;p=edlib.git

Make symbols in loaded libraries global.

I don't really like doing this, but python needs it for
"import gtk" to work.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
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diff --git a/core-editor.c b/core-editor.c
index f181dd09..cad2ef85 100644
--- a/core-editor.c
+++ b/core-editor.c
@@ -98,7 +98,12 @@ int editor_load_module(struct editor *ed, char *name)
 	void (*s)(struct editor *e);
 
 	sprintf(buf, "edlib-%s.so", name);
-	h = dlopen(buf, RTLD_NOW);
+	/* RTLD_GLOBAL is needed for python, else we get
+	 * errors about _Py_ZeroStruct which a python script
+	 * tries "import gtk"
+	 *
+	 */
+	h = dlopen(buf, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL);
 	if (!h)
 		return 0;
 	s = dlsym(h, "edlib_init");