On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dan Harkless wrote:
> > The effect is that SSL libraries will be loaded in run-time only when wget
> > actually tries to use them (presumably when trying to access https URLs),
> > but not otherwise. The start-up is faster and you don't have to have SSL
> > libraries if you don't intend to use them, although the binary was linked
> > against them. It's probably not very important in case of wget, but we can
> > discuss GNOME, KDE and CDE binaries if you want.
>
> I'm sorry, but you're again pretty aggressively in shared library expert
> territory here. I'm sure 99% of users don't play around with nolazyload,
> and most probably don't even know it exists. If you want to do this stuff,
> go to it! You can override whatever Makefile variables you need to get your
> special behavior. If you need to get libtool out of the picture completely
> for some reason, go for it! Simply do:
I know XFree86 to dynamically load libraries had to go with there own
dynamic loader, as dlopen is not available on all platforms, I believe it
was donated by metrox [don't quote me!]. From reading peoples postings on
the devel list it took alot of work too... Just for one ssl library it
seems alot of work to get it to load on demand. dlopen could be used but
you back in the realm of not being a cross platform solution.
James
