Subject: Re: pkg/32950: xfce4-panel and xfce-mcs-manager can not load their plugins on Darwin
To: None <martti@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 02/28/2006 15:10:03
The following reply was made to PR pkg/32950; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/32950: xfce4-panel and xfce-mcs-manager can not load their plugins on Darwin
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:09:25 +0100
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:55:01AM +0000, alex@foxybanana.com wrote:
>
> They don't seem to really offer a solution except: try and recompile it
> but there may be some insight I missed.
<personal opinion>
*grmbl* Clueless idiots should be punished for writing module systems
</personal opinion>
This problem should be easily reproducable on other platforms when lazy
linking is disabled. It complains completely correctly.
There are two possible solutions:
(a) Each user of MCS plugins is required to provide
mcs_plugin_check_version.
(b) Each MCS plugin provides a *weak* version of
mcs_plugin_check_version.
Both need some hacking, but the latter is much better from an API POV.
Joerg