On 05/02/15 11:03, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.
Well that's a good reason. I though there were dl*() stubs, but maybe I
thought wrong. How do I build the current code? The set of commands is
probably somewhere in the osstest logs, but it wasn't immediately
obvious to me where exactly.
>> 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.
Oh I wasn't suggesting you should do it, just that one day "dynamic"
linking support might be available.
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