On 07/15/2009 09:36 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
Before moving something out to a plugin (if we think that is technically appropriate for the particular code in question) we should have a way to build code, set up to be built as a plugin, into the compiler so that the -fplugin options find the built-in code, in a way that does not depend on plugins otherwise being supported on the host system; maybe somewhere in the source tree to put sources for plugins that get built into the compiler, or a configure option to point to such sources.
It would be easy to switch from libdl to libltdl (which is independent from libtool, and can be built as a host module from the toplevel makefile), and use libtool -dlpreopen if this is desired.
Paolo
