Re: 329-gary-allow-RTLD_GLOBAL

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 8 Apr 2007, at 18:03, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:53:01PM CEST:

On 8 Apr 2007, at 01:56, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

Incidentally, I'm don't know whether it would be wiser to go from 2.1a

to 2.2 when we do release to keep in line with our own version
numbering

the number to 1.9i in CVS in readiness for a 2.0 release.  Thoughts?

scheme, or whether it will be okay to release 1.9h from HEAD and reset

I think we should release 2.1b next, then 2.2.  2.1a has been floating

be confusing.

around a lot, and if we reset it now, then going to 2.1 again later will

Agreed.

Next, please be aware that as important as documentation would be
test exposure  for the functionality.

test that the API is available,

I have no idea how to write a reliable test for this. I can certainly

Yes.  That's the first test that needs to be done: just simply have a
test that calls each new function at least once.

I can do that.  If you haven't had time to review before I next work on
libtool, I'll add that to the patch and repost.

but since the best semantics I can

is supported by the host OS and the underlying dlloader
implementation".

provide are "instead of the default symbol visibility request that the underlying dlloader use global or local symbols at load time, iff that

I won't mind if such a test is specific to dlopen for now, or even to
GNU/Linux.  I can write it if you like.

That would be great!  Thanks.

Maybe I should test for the system default, and add a test that tries
to change it and succeeds only if lt_dlissym{global,local} fail, or
the default symbol visibility is successfully overridden.  That's
probably more work than the patch itself though!

Yuck.

Indeed.  Let's skip that then.  Phew :-)

Cheers,
        Gary
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