On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:03:33PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:52:02PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> > There's code (eg. audio/openal, but not only) that does:
> >
> > dlopen("libsndio.so", ...);
> >
> > and then calls dlsym() for each function and so on. What's the point
> > of doing this instead of simply linking the binary with -lsndio and
> > using functions normally?
> >
> > hints?
>
> Misplaced portability concerns from upstreams, and ETOOMUCHWORK from the
> porter.
>
> If it's not too intrusive, telling upstream to forget about old OpenBSD
> versions and doing the normal linking thing is the way to go.
but how using dlopen() would help old OpenBSD versions? do upstream
thinks we ship old .so files in base?
-- Alexandre
