On PowerPC, an unresolved symbol during shared library load is
incorrectly reported as a bad reloc type.
For example, during a failed attempt to load the readline Python module I get:
python: symbol 'PC': can't handle reloc type 'R_PPC_ADDR32' in lib
'/lib/libreadline.so.5'
python: symbol 'tgetnum': can't handle reloc type 'R_PPC_JMP_SLOT' in
lib '/lib/libreadline.so.5'
instead of the more accurate:
python: symbol 'PC': can't resolve symbol in lib '/lib/libreadline.so.5'.
python: symbol 'tgetnum': can't resolve symbol in lib '/lib/libreadline.so.5'.
The attached patch makes the PowerPC elfinterp.c behave like the i386 version.
001-powerpc-elfinterp.patch [^] (409 bytes) 08-07-06 09:31 
