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Re: [PATCH 3/7] Platform agnostic dynamic loading code.
On Monday 29 August 2011 13:58:39, Sanjoy Das wrote:
> Hi Pedro!
>
> > This isn't correct. There are platforms where dlopen & friends are
> > in the C library, and don't need or have -ldl/libdl.
>
>
> Does it make more sense to have an AC_CHECK_HEADERS for dlfcn.h then?
> Of course, the AC_CHECK_LIB will have to stay, since we'd want to add
> -ldl if required.
Checking for dlfcn.h sounds like a good idea, but I think AC_SEARCH_LIBS
instead of AC_CHECK_LIB would be a bit more bullet proof, to still check
for being able to call/link dlopen.
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Pedro Alves