On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:22:38PM +0200, Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> > While trying to use the new interlibrary dependency resolution
> > (load_deplibs) in the CVS version of libtool, we found out that it is
> > never passed the list of library dependencies. The reason is a wrong
> > define in ltdl.c which doesn't match the keyword generated by the
> > libtool script. A patch is included below.
> >
> > There was also a bunch of missing quotes around `test' arguments in
> > the scripts, which confused /bin/test on Solaris 2.7 boxes.
> >
> > 2000-10-20 Utz-Uwe Haus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > * libltdl/ltdl.c (lt_dlopen): Changed "dl_dependency_libs" keyword
> > to "dependency_libs".
>
> Excellent! This has greatly helped with KDE.
>
> Quick question though. Where dependency_libs is large and references
> other .la objects, would it be worthwhile to cache already-dlopen'ed
> libraries? If so, what would happen if one of the dlopen'ed libraries
> got updated while the program was running? Because we cached the fact
> that the library was already loaded, the library would not be reloaded
> (though I suppose we could use a stat cache on the modification time
> of the file if necessary).
Oh, looks like tryall_dlopen already does this.
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albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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