From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 02:37:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbai8w7cd8d8.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvzkzsrdy0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On 2010-05-22 01:15 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I talked with our lawyer, and we determined that GCC's technique of
>> checking for a symbol whose name says "I am under a GPL3-compatible
>> license" is ok for Emacs and other GNU packages when dynamically
>> loading libraries at the C level.
>> So you can implement dynamic loading with the check for that symbol.
>> If the symbol is not present then the function to load should
>> report an error and not load it.
>
> That's great news. So all we need now is for someone to submit a patch
> that provides such dynamic loading functionality, and then start
> using it.
Isn't the patch already around
http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/?
>
>
> Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 23:09 Dynamic loading of C libraries Richard Stallman
2010-05-21 7:25 ` joakim
2010-05-22 0:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-22 1:37 ` Leo [this message]
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