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Bug 18883

Summary: Python module 'socketmodule.so' not working with more recent libc
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: cjenkins
Component: pythonAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description cjenkins 2000-10-11 13:32:10 UTC 
The following error results when trying to 'import socket' on a system
running glibc-2.1.3:
"ImportError: /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/socketmodule.so: symbol
gethostbyaddr_r, version GLIBC_2.1.2 not defined in file libc.so.6 with
link time reference "

The reference appears to be to the following symbol:
gethostbyaddr_r@@GLIBC_2.1.2 , which should be ok with a more recent
version of libc but is not. There are also other modules with similar
dependencies. 

By recompiling the python1.5.2-28 SRPM the only depencencies I now see are
based on glibc-2.0 or 2.1, no sub-minor version number.
Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-01-27 02:06:19 UTC 
works in recent rawhides.