Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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.
I too hesitate to commit to libtool for something so small and optional. How about making this feature available only on systems that provide working dlopen and shared library support?
