On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0300, Alejo Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:35:51PM -0300, Alejo Sanchez wrote: > > > well, your version would do it the dlopen() way. > > > actually we were going to ask if there was a > > > restriction on depending on dlopen(), as it could > > > be possible on some non-dynamic plataforms. > > > (no shared libraries, no dl library) > [...] > > I was only asking if release applications from debian > are allowed to have dlopen() (even if it isn't used > on most situations) > > AFAIK some OS don't, ie. OpenBSD.
I am not aware of any issues in using dlopen() within Debian except requiring some care over dependencies: if you require the library, you must make sure that the dependencies in your package ensure that the library is installed (ldd/objdump won't see it), and if you don't absolutely need it, you must ensure that the code doesn't fail if the library is not present. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/