Antti Kantee writes ("Re: [PATCH] app-tools: Support old -D__RUMPUSER_XEN__ for 
now"):
> On 04/02/15 16:58, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > * In xc_private.c it is used to disable reliance on the dynamic loader
> >    (dlopen, et al).  (It might be better to gate that more explicitly
> >    on something in configure, but dynamic loader support is definitely
> >    a reasonable thing for a platform to lack.)
> 
> If the current code works without explicitly disabling it, why go 
> through the trouble?

Without this disablement of dynamic linking, the current code fails to
build.

> Also, there has been some talk that we need to emulate dl*() in rumprun 
> because especially some language runtimes 100% rely on it.

That would certainly be nice but it was more than I was prepared to
bite off at the time.

Ian.

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