libltdl vs System.loadLibrary

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green@redhat.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.

Also at the time we wanted the libltdl prelinking capability.  I don't
know if anybody has ever used this.

Tom