On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Nick Kew wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2008 09:07:03 +0100 > Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > changing each function call into > > an indirected dynamic-symbol-lookup-and-function-call would be an > > unmaintainable hack. > > But that's not the proposal on the table! Noone is suggesting > changing any function call, API or even ABI. Merely how the > code is loaded.
OK, great. How will it work then? > > Since downstream users must also continue to be > > linked against those LDAP libraries by virtue of linking against > > libaprutil, it would also be a redundant hack. > > That is a misfeature of the current build procedure. The code was explicitly designed to work like this, it's a feature which can't be removed without breaking backwards compat with existing downstream users. (I'm not saying I like it) joe
