Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Building problem with 0.8.16 without plugins

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From: Lutz Jaenicke <Lutz.Jaenicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:22:35 +0200
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:43:51AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > PS. There is a dlopen emulator for the HP-UX shl_* interface included in
> > cyrus-sasl (lib/dlopen.c).
> We don't use "dlopen()" directly, we use the GLib wrapper, which
> supports HP-UX.
> 
> The problem is that we currently determine, on UNIX systems, whether
> dynamic linking is supported by checking whether we have a "dlfcn.h"
> header file, rather than by checking whether "g_module_supported()" in
> GLib returns TRUE or FALSE.

I see. I just read the comment in the offending file about the shl_*
interface. I just had a look into gmodule and it does support the shl_*
interface, but that is certainly no surprise for you :-)

Best regards,
	Lutz
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