On 03/07/2010 09:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Reuben Thomas wrote:
Could I get some clarification on whether there's any desire for an
acceptable version of my patch to allow libpcre to be linked at
run-time?
I certainly like the idea.
So distros would exchange putting libpcre in /lib with putting libltdl
in /lib (since using libdl is a no-no for upstream, but statically
linking libltdl is a no-no for many distributions).
Secondarily, grep is not using libtool, and the advantages of adding it
together with libltdl would have to be evaluated too (also WRT portability).
So, I won't strongly oppose that, but I think that overall Debian is
much better served by its current small patch. It would have to be well
weighed and should be an opt-in configure option anyway.
Paolo
