Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden>,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:42:35 -0400
> 
> > The .so extension is platform specific.  Since Emacs tries to keep
> > platform dependencies out of the Lisp level, how about chopping the
> > extension, and adding to load-module the necessary code to look for
> > the extension specific to the underlying platform?
> 
> I think we can circumvent this problem by changing the suffix we add to
> load-suffixes depending on the platform (e.g. based on dlopenext).

You mean, use foo.so in Lisp and have .so changed to something else?
That's ugly, and we never do that anywhere else.  Why start now?  Just
use "foo" and set up the extensions as appropriate for the platform,
as we do with programs.