From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23263 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2003 21:39:50 -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 23251 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2003 21:39:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gash2.peakpeak.com) (207.174.178.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2003 21:39:49 -0000 Received: from fleche.redhat.com (ty0221.peakpeak.com [206.168.3.221]) by gash2.peakpeak.com (8.9.3/8.9.3.1) with ESMTP id PAA20854; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:39:47 -0600 Received: by fleche.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37CF44F8318; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:31:22 -0600 (MDT) To: Gary Benson Cc: rhug-rhats@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: merged-libs-branch References: <20030930110446.GC3407@redhat.com> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: Don't hit me!! I'm in the Twilight Zone!!! Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:39:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20030930110446.GC3407@redhat.com> Message-ID: <87vfr81w7p.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 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. Tom