Re: 329-gary-allow-RTLD_GLOBAL

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:38:02AM CEST:
>
> Looking at this again in the fresh light of day, I realised that the entire
> point of the moddepend test is to check that its unresolved symbols can be
> satisfied from the program that lt_dlopen()'s it when using the global 
> hint.
> It makes no sense to resolve the symbols at link time when trying to test
> that the hint is correctly causing them to resolve at load time.
>
> The only way I see forward is to skip this test on hosts that require all
> symbols to be resolved at link time... Should I also emit a 'not portable'
> warning when using this feature on the hosts that do support it?

I'd prefer, if it's not too much work, that the test be run on all
systems, but on the tough ones not build moddepend, and exit SKIP
even if the other modules turn out to work.  If you agree and are
willing to do the work, consider a patch preapproved.  ;-)

Cheers,
Ralf