From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16559 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2003 08:42:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact rhug-rhats-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: rhug-rhats-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16550 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 08:42:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gary-benson.demon.co.uk) (80.177.162.128) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 08:42:09 -0000 Received: from slippy.wire.rat ([192.168.1.1]) by gary-benson.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1A4z2G-0000LI-00 for rhug-rhats@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:42:08 +0100 Received: from slippy.wire.rat (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by slippy.wire.rat (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h928g848003553 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:42:08 +0100 Received: (from gary@localhost) by slippy.wire.rat (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h928g8I8003551 for rhug-rhats@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:42:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:42:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: rhug-rhats@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: merged-libs-branch Message-ID: <20031002084207.GA3403@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: rhug-rhats@sources.redhat.com References: <20030930110446.GC3407@redhat.com> <87vfr81w7p.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vfr81w7p.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6646 CF68 DEA8 07CA CA64 C18C A150 FC2D 85A8 F78B X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Tom Tromey wrote: > Gary> The merged-libs-branch in xerces, xalan and mx4j contains fixes for > Gary> broken circular linking which makes dlopen() fail on some of the > Gary> libraries in these packages. > > When the new binary compatibility ABI is ready, we can just not have > libraries link against one another at all. In fact, that will be > the preferred approach. Excellent! Things being linked together causes all manner of problems with Tomcat's classloader stack... Gary