From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi  Tue Nov 24 12:19:33 2009
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [MiNT] GNU dld
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>
Cc: mint <mint@fishpool.com>
In-Reply-To: <1259000527.25889.59.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
References: <1257366984.16123.8.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
	 <4AF214F9.1070403@freesbee.fr>
	 <1257412964.16123.9.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
	 <1259000527.25889.59.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:14:52 +0000
Message-Id: <1259082892.25889.96.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk
Precedence: bulk
List-help: <mailto:ecartis@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=help>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=unsubscribe>
List-Id: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
X-List-ID: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
List-subscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=subscribe>
List-owner: <mailto:tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>
List-post: <mailto:mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id nAOHJWpV019891

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:22 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:22 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 00:57 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > > Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > > Has anyone ever looked at GNU dld ? Vincent ?
> > > 
> > > Hello, Alan.
> > > 
> > > I never heard about dld.
> > > 
> > > Do you mean that Perl can take advantage of dld to dynamically load object 
> > > files ?
> > 
> > Right.
> > 
> > > Is it a requirement to build the latest Perl, or is it an enhancement ?
> > 
> > Enhancement.
> > 
> > > In other words, is dld mandatory for us, or is it an additional interesting 
> > > feature ?
> > 
> > Not mandatory, but a very interesting useful feature.
> 
> O.k. got dld working here with the test programs. Off to try perl with
> it now.

It seems that perl now needs the -r flag to ld working which is
obviously broken at the moment.

Vincent - do you know the scale of the problem to fix this and offer any
pointers and I'll go take a look if you haven't the time ?

Thanks,

Alan.