Re: [xml] Re: The DSO dilemna

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming starnetworks us>]

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.

libtool 2.0 is going to support including ltdl.{c,h} with your package, 
but only building/installing it if there is not already a compatible 
version present on the system. I believe it also supports side-by-side 
installation of multiple versions, but I don't remember for sure.