On 03/05/2010 11:28 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
2010/3/5 Paolo Bonzini<[email protected]>:03-dlopen-pcre.patch Ialso not appropriate for upstream (not in its current shape anyway since it should at least use ltdl and not hardcode the soname).This is originally from me; it's also in the patch tracker on Savannah, #7017. Your answer above implicitly addresses my question, which is which dynamic loading mechanism I should use. If you'd repeat that comment on the patch tracker (if using ltdl is indeed the answer), then I could move forward...
Usually when building from source either you have a dependency or not; run-time dependencies in something as fundamental as grep seem strange.
It may make sense for a distro (even in Fedora it would allow to remove PCRE from /lib64), but I am not sure it is appropriate for upstream.
Paolo
