On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:56:10PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > According to the libtool manual, section "Finding the correct name to dlopen" > (Info node '(libtool)Finding the dlname'), > > After a library has been linked with ‘-module’, it can be dlopened.
I do not think that the libraries (libtexinfo, libtexinfoxs...) are linked with -module. > Unfortunately, because of the variation in library names, your package > needs to determine the correct file to dlopen. > > The most straightforward and flexible implementation is to determine > the name at runtime, by finding the installed ‘.la’ file, and searching > it for the following lines: > > # The name that we can dlopen. > dlname='DLNAME' > > Hence it appears to be the most straightforward approach to use dlname. > Using library_names may also be correct, but using dlname is the > recommended usage and therefore it makes the most sense to stick to that > rather than to try to work out whether library_names would make sense > too. And probably as importantly, it works, so it is better to keep on doing like that until there is a case that seems to contradict the observations... -- Pat
