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Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries
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Leo |
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Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries |
Date: |
Sat, 22 May 2010 02:37:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2010-05-22 01:15 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I talked with our lawyer, and we determined that GCC's technique of
>> checking for a symbol whose name says "I am under a GPL3-compatible
>> license" is ok for Emacs and other GNU packages when dynamically
>> loading libraries at the C level.
>> So you can implement dynamic loading with the check for that symbol.
>> If the symbol is not present then the function to load should
>> report an error and not load it.
>
> That's great news. So all we need now is for someone to submit a patch
> that provides such dynamic loading functionality, and then start
> using it.
Isn't the patch already around
http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/dynamic-loading/?
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>
> Stefan