From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Using Libtool's `dlpreopen' Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:53:56 +0000 Message-ID: <49dd78620812071353n6f50fdcp645040a96b681f07@mail.gmail.com> References: <873agzity7.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620812071318hdd0932bi3df1c4b22c601a6c@mail.gmail.com> <87ljurhdhc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228686852 20009 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2008 21:54:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?=" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 22:55:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L9Ras-00057q-C4 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:55:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RZh-0000tC-Le for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RZe-0000sv-IQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RZd-0000sX-VA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40969 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9RZd-0000sU-S4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:29282) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9RZd-0002WU-Dr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so674197fgb.30 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=fNChlkQXu7Hb5t+WdLQZ7EFUoTsuBdw1XcjVUjh7zf4=; b=YIlj56eflQ4SGlKbSOtT8FzPasOsslckBoIxqLjLpos+ukZ96RTN59Rc+yo1RjYQyV sXuwcX7YYAniTTJ0K5jfK2Ct3lmtafxr9oVF4hfsZz5m9PxXLchXX1dhoMix0KvCW7ju Oh1rag2CyeuUEVk3nnzNKlXNbaF92cxwL9Be4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=M4v+7QcVv7k66EF2U6CJoWI2DYR2F1Ce4TIc8ZVzJxYacFEP3XQkncGwUT1zikEueH v5xKJKrAILVwE3rnd1yT9iGLOiLcwEa5DIv1AjJolmtsGVT4Vo7j4/+D5zR7QT/TYjDK e3hnbpbWWRemsDaFLmEDmjEy3ln5YRn24WRew= Original-Received: by 10.181.138.13 with SMTP id q13mr976659bkn.42.1228686836041; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.181.59.9 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:53:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87ljurhdhc.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7901 Archived-At: 2008/12/7 Ludovic Court=E8s : > > That said, I think dlpreopen is not useless per se: it allows > `--disable-shared' builds to work, as well as builds on platforms > without shared library support (IIRC Guile is built without shared > libraries by default on HP-UX 11.11). I agree. But given that you were sure that it had never worked as it was, and that I have no evidence contrary to that, your change was only removing cruft, not removing function. Of course, someone may still choose to invest time in making --disable-shared really work, if that is important. Regards, Neil