Re: [xml] Re: The DSO dilemna

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 08:32:34AM -0500, Joel Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:12:06AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   We can make this a configuration flag or option, --with-sys-ldtl ...
> > which if activated will try to do what you suggest and if not found or
> > not activated will fallback to a locally modified copy. This is very
> > similar to the current approach taken for the trio library. Except I
> > will be very tempted to use the local copy even on Linux. The point
> > being that if for some reason we don't embed the latest version users
> > still have the option to use their version they know work for them in
> > their specific environment.
> >   I'm fine doing the mess of embedding the local copy and adding the
> > special configure option if you provide the configure lookup and the
> > ldtl based version.  And if we can't pass the flags to xmlModuleOpen
> > then too bad but it should not stop us from trying that approach.
>
> ok, i can do this. you're not suggesting we awk ltdl to 
> change the exported symbol names though (i think). while creative, 
> i cringe at the thought of doing that.

  Don't worry, I will likely use sed or patch instead :-)

Daniel

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