Re: Preloading without .la

[Pierre Ossman]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:37:29 +0200
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Pierre,
> 
> * Pierre Ossman wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:57:56PM CET:
> > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:41:31 +0100 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Pierre Ossman wrote on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:57:23AM CET:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Are you still working on adding a test case for this patch?
> 

It's on my todo list, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Things got a bit
swamped here. :/

Rgds
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