Re: 1.6.0 problems with libguilereadline-v-12 and fix

[Rob Browning]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> By "temporarily", I meant that the modification should be undone
> after linking the library.  Would this problem still remain then?

Hmm, that's an interesting idea.  It might be shaky in the presence of
threads, but I'm not sure that's something we're aiming to accomodate.
It would also prevent users from controlling things via their normal
envt, vars, but perhaps that's not critical either.  It's definitely
better than what I had been thinking in that direction.

However, I guess at the moment, since we have the issue documented in
the INSTALL file, I'm tempted to leave things alone until we can
hopefully figure out a more general solution (during the 1.7
development cycle), and then only change things once.

Marius has suggested that perhaps the right thing to do is discuss
this with the libltdl people and see if we can settle on a more
general solution, one that might also involve a versioned lt_dlopen.
I'm inclined in that direction as well.

Thanks

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