Hello, On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 13:19, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rouss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 24 mars 2012 12:05, "Magosányi, Árpád" <m4g...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> I guess you might want to discuss the pros and cons of removing libltdl >> dependency. >> There is a heap of changesets about it in gerrit. > > I do not remember why libltdl was needed in the first place. > > Alon, do you know/remember why libltdl was added?
It was added way-way ago in 2005, as there was one library (identically called scdl) which tried to be like libltdl (meaning wrapping dl and LoadLibrary). ltdl was supposed to give better portability (?) See 7d2ebb11c4a969583cadca8adb6e8153228a4866 > Is it related to OpenSC on Mac OS X 10.5 for PowerPC? I found a > reference in [1]. No. That is just a workaround for 10.5 Removing this is a good thing. Martin _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
