Re: Gentoo bug #249617 - problem with libtool, perl or unixODBC ?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Rafał,

thanks for the report.

* Rafał Mużyło wrote on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:06:48PM CEST:
> Following problem is of only limited interest for me,
> but I think some input from libtool people could be useful there.

FWIW, this is <http://bugs.gentoo.org/249617>.

> unixODBC bundles libtool, as it patches it. It does that,
> cause LT_GLOBAL in dlopen call causes a problem when
> unixODBC is used by Perl::ODBC module.

Libtool 2.2.6 allows you to specify global or local visibility with the
lt_dladvise_local and lt_dladvise_global functions.

> Now, my question is: is this problem solvable without
> modifing libtool and where does the problem really lie
> - in unixODBC design, in the way perl handles modules
> or somewhere else ?

You'd probably just need to update to a newer libltdl and use its
features.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf