Re: Preloading without .la

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Pierre,

* Pierre Ossman wrote on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:57:23AM CET:
> Let's give this another go. I've included a patch against master this
> time.

Thanks for your patch and your perseverance.

> For a reminder, the problem is that libltdl mangles library names for
> the preload table, but libtool does not, resulting it being impossible
> to look up things.
> 
> Also, some programs expect the library names in the preload table to be
> unmangled so we need to change libltdl to stop doing that.

We need testsuite coverage for both of these issues, and a NEWS entry.
I can't judge yet whether this patch has the potential for causing
regressions for some users.

Thanks,
Ralf

> From 5f136168282724689f8da99d45fd0324e85af130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pierre Ossman <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:43:14 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Make libltdl stop mangling preloaded names.
> 
> Store the original name for lookup in the preload table as that is what
> libtool puts in there, not the mangled version libltdl was previously
> using.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <address@hidden>