Re: AC_LTDL_DLLIB in HEAD/ltdl.m4

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:01:23AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:58:14PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > We've modified libtool.m4 to perfer shl_load on HP-UX *even* if dlopen
> > is available. The rationale for this is because dlopen() requires a
> > patch which all users might not have (we're running into this problem
> > now). Unfortunately, ltdl calls AC_LTDL_DLLIB which searches for
> > *every* possible loader and defines them all in libtldl/ltdl.c. Why?
> > Why not just pick the first we find? The current behaviour uses
> > shl_load and dlopen on HP-UX by default. I'd like to get this changed
> > to shl_load only.
> 
> Patch below. Tested on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00.

Agreed.  Applied on HEAD with small change to GNU DLD test, and
indentation throughout -- and backported to branch-1-4.  Committing
when the testsuite has finished...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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