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authorThomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>2007-10-11 19:51:32 (GMT)
committerThomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>2007-10-11 19:51:32 (GMT)
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On OS X, use os.uname() instead of gestalt.sysv(...) to get the
operating system version. This allows to use ctypes when Python was configured with --disable-toolbox-glue.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/ctypes/__init__.py13
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
index 2e35307..1500896 100644
--- a/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py
@@ -24,19 +24,12 @@ if _os.name in ("nt", "ce"):
DEFAULT_MODE = RTLD_LOCAL
if _os.name == "posix" and _sys.platform == "darwin":
- import gestalt
-
- # gestalt.gestalt("sysv") returns the version number of the
- # currently active system file as BCD.
- # On OS X 10.4.6 -> 0x1046
- # On OS X 10.2.8 -> 0x1028
- # See also http://www.rgaros.nl/gestalt/
- #
# On OS X 10.3, we use RTLD_GLOBAL as default mode
# because RTLD_LOCAL does not work at least on some
- # libraries.
+ # libraries. OS X 10.3 is Darwin 7, so we check for
+ # that.
- if gestalt.gestalt("sysv") < 0x1040:
+ if int(_os.uname()[2].split('.')[0]) < 8:
DEFAULT_MODE = RTLD_GLOBAL
from _ctypes import FUNCFLAG_CDECL as _FUNCFLAG_CDECL, \