Subject: Re: dynamic loading & shared libs ?
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 05/12/1998 17:12:51
Matt Thomas wrote:
> At 08:54 AM 5/12/98 , you wrote:
> >>From what I've heard:
> >
> >Dynamic loading is available on all but Alpha & mips & PowerPC,
> >shared libs are not on PowerPC (yet). Is this right ?
> >
> >Why dynamic loading doesn't work on alpha & mips ? I recall someone
> >saying dynamic loading on alpha & mips doesn't work with Perl only
> >or something like this.
> 
> I'm pretty sure dynamic loading does work on Alpha (and mips if
> using the new ld.elf_so).

At least two packages (python, py-Numeric) and still-not-commited
py-readline, py-Tk & py-readline explicitly list alpha, mips
& powerpc as architectures where dynamic loading doesn't work.
Should it be considered as bug and send-pr'ed ?

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