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Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2 |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:08:08 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Chad Brown <address@hidden> writes:
>> Wasn't there a problem with linking to external libraries at that time?
>
> Yes, there was. The FSF [lawyers] recently determined that it would
> be possible to use external libraries with some explicit marking of
> legal status, along the lines of what is used in GCC.
This refers to only FFI. Using libxml as a static dependency has never
been a problem, apart from needing someone to implement it.
> Looking back through the mail archives, it seems that practical
> implementation is stuck waiting on an FFI design/implementation. I
> thought that one had been sketched out, but I'm not finding it in the
> archives, so perhaps I am confused.
It's already been finalized:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Dynamic-Plug_002dIn-Interfaces.html
- Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Chad Brown, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Chad Brown, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, joakim, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Jason Rumney, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Andreas Schwab, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, joakim, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08