Re: Debian patches

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/05/2010 11:28 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 2010/3/5 Paolo Bonzini<address@hidden>:
> > 03-dlopen-pcre.patch
> >         Ialso not appropriate for upstream (not in its current shape
> >         anyway since it should at least use ltdl and not hardcode the
> >         soname).
>
> This is originally from me; it's also in the patch tracker on
> Savannah, #7017. Your answer above implicitly addresses my question,
> which is which dynamic loading mechanism I should use. If you'd repeat
> that comment on the patch tracker (if using ltdl is indeed the
> answer), then I could move forward...

Usually when building from source either you have a dependency or not; 
run-time dependencies in something as fundamental as grep seem strange.

It may make sense for a distro (even in Fedora it would allow to remove 
PCRE from /lib64), but I am not sure it is appropriate for upstream.

Paolo