Re: Gmodule stuff.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Sebastian Wilhelmi wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Would you mind, if I checked in the proposed patch of
>
> 	http://bugs.gnome.org/db/54/5429.html
>
> It seems rather obvious. The only part, that might need more attantion is,
> that HP-UX seems to require '.sl' instead of '.so' (Thats at least, what
> ltconfig implies). So we  could add a macro with the proper ending to
> glibconfig.h like one of (maybe better without the dot?):
>
> #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX ".so"
> #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX ".sl"
> #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX ".dll"
>
> Does that make sense?

Another interesting feature would be to add support for openning a libtool
.la file.  These provide enough information to locate the shared library.
Tim's beast program includes code to get the filename, which could be used
as a guide.  This way, people using gmodule would not need to worry about
what extension shared libraries have on the system their program is
running on.

>
> BTW: what about moving testgmodule to glib/tests? I would migrate it there, if
> you don't object.

James.