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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ...if linking a completly unused library...
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 17:05:08
Message-Id: 20161002170231.17454.08E610F0@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ...if linking a completly unused library... by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 2016-10-02 09:54, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2
3 > For an example where the underlinking is intended, the GNU Scientific
4 > Library (gsl) allows you to swap out linear algebra backends. The gsl
5 > developers intend for you to pick one such backend, and then link
6 > everything together in your executable. Thus, they ship gsl without
7 > linking it against any particular linear algebra library. It won't
8 > work with --as-needed out of the box (we patch it in Gentoo).
9
10 Wouldn't this situation be better handled with dlopen() or its progeny
11 like libltdl ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...if linking a completly unused library... Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>