Re: Preloading without .la

[Pierre Ossman]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:41:31 +0100
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Pierre,
> 
> * Pierre Ossman wrote on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:57:23AM CET:
> > Let's give this another go. I've included a patch against master this
> > time.
> 
> Thanks for your patch and your perseverance.
> 

I get new energy every time I upgrade libtool and have to refix this. ;)

> > For a reminder, the problem is that libltdl mangles library names for
> > the preload table, but libtool does not, resulting it being impossible
> > to look up things.
> > 
> > Also, some programs expect the library names in the preload table to be
> > unmangled so we need to change libltdl to stop doing that.
> 
> We need testsuite coverage for both of these issues, and a NEWS entry.
> I can't judge yet whether this patch has the potential for causing
> regressions for some users.
> 

I think I concluded that it was impossible to load modules where the
name had been mangled, so there should be no regressions. I'll have
another look though and try to fix some test case.

Rgds
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