On Nov 5, 2002, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com> wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jeez, this was a *long* time ago! :-)
"Anthony" == Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com> writes:
Anthony> What does libltdl buy us beyond ldopen/ldclose? Could we
Anthony> just remove it?
I chose it early on. I thought it would solve dlopen portability
problems for us. (And maybe it does and we haven't noticed :-)
Alexandre Oliva (CCd) may have insight on the pros and cons of this
library.
I think the only portability wins would be on HP-UX and MS-Windows
(and maybe Mac OS X, I'm not sure about this; it's been a long time
:-). Oh, and any platforms that don't support dynamic linking, that
dlpreopen emulates nicely, up to a point.