Re: [hwloc-devel] -lhwloc in components.

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
I agree -- all of the things you mention are do-able. But it's a whole lot more bookkeeping and care/feeding to ensure that nothing goes wrong vs. just calling a hwloc core function and assuming it's there. Such things will require maintenance over time. In the end -- it's a tradeoff: - do

Re: [hwloc-devel] -lhwloc in components.

2012-09-05 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Sep 5, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> No. It's not really an ltdl issue. ltdl is just a portable wrapper around >> OS-specific dlopen-like mechanisms. > > I understand that, but dlopen is usually used for plugins, and plugins > usually need such kind of calling back into

Re: [hwloc-devel] -lhwloc in components.

2012-09-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeff Squyres, le Wed 05 Sep 2012 17:06:00 +0200, a écrit : > On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > So ltdl does not help for that matter? > > No. It's not really an ltdl issue. ltdl is just a portable wrapper around > OS-specific dlopen-like mechanisms. I understand