Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: None <greywolf@starwolf.com, wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 20:20:05
> > If I recall correctly, there was quite a bit of debate on this, and I
> > didn't see any clear rationale nor consensus.  Admittedly the rationale
> > seems a bit more clear...
> 
> dlopen().
Why should using dlopen() require that the executable is dynamically
linked?  Requiring this is, imo, broken.  If using dlopen() is the
reason to go to a dynamically linked /bin, then fix dlopen() instead.

	-- Lennart