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>> Now I was woundering, which way would Gentoo choose or if that is not |
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>> package specific at all. Are you sure dlopen() is used as a general |
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>> approach on Gentoo? |
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> Gentoo doesn't choose anything; it's up to the programs to decide how they |
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> want to load libraries at runtime. It's like asking whether Gentoo chooses |
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> to use Qt or Gtk to run Firefox; well, since Firefox is a Gtk application |
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> and is making calls to Gtk functions, Gentoo doesn't have a say about it. |
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O.K. that is one importent point I needed to understand. So the choice |
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of the tool to handle dynamic linking is on the side of the programs |
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and can't be triggert uniformly from the ebuilds. |
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Hmm, ist the dlopen() call the same on all plattforms? I assume, else |
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you would need to adapt the sources. |
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How can I find that out? Sure grepping the sources. |
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Al |
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