From: joakim@verona.se
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: dynamic loading of the imagemagic library?
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:57:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zla69qsi.fsf@verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8181E1.3020701@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:36:17 +0800")
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> Is it ok to use dlopen and dlsym for imagemagick loading on
>> gnu/linux platforms? I presume yes, but since I only dimly understand
>> why dynamic use of external libraries is problematic, I ask.
>>
>
> Linking to Free libraries is not problematic, making a generalized API
> to allow arbritrary libraries to be dynamically loaded might be. The
> reason w32 uses dynamic linking for the image libraries is that there
> is no equivalent of apt/deb, rpm, BSD ports or fink on w32, so it is
> better for the users if we don't fail to run when non-essential
> dependencies are missing.
Ok, a user expressed interest in having the same system on for instance
Debian, so imagemagick wouldnt be a hard dependency of emacs, just an
optional one. I agree with the sentiment.
--
Joakim Verona
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2009-08-11 14:13 dynamic loading of the imagemagic library? joakim
2009-08-11 14:36 ` Jason Rumney
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