On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:22:54PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > unixODBC bundles libtool, as it patches it. It does that, > > cause LT_GLOBAL in dlopen call causes a problem when > > unixODBC is used by Perl::ODBC module. > > Libtool 2.2.6 allows you to specify global or local visibility with the > lt_dladvise_local and lt_dladvise_global functions. > Just to make sure: that was not possible in libtool 1.5, right ? > > Now, my question is: is this problem solvable without > > modifing libtool and where does the problem really lie > > - in unixODBC design, in the way perl handles modules > > or somewhere else ? > > You'd probably just need to update to a newer libltdl and use its > features. > Above meant: unixODBC should be updated to use libtool 2, correct ?
Here, I'm simply trying to understand what exactly the initial problem was, that made unixODBC people patch libltdl. PS.:CC me, when replying (well, Ralf did, just in case somebody else answers). _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
