Re: Patches for jed

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've some patches I would like to see included in your source tree.

I added the patches except for the dynamic linking one:

> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-jed/jed.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1558cb5d7b7e1cd4d8519976efb85453d6c1fc3
>
>     Remove dynamic linking checks and options
>
>     The dynamic linking stuff isn't used by Jed directly. The SLang library
>     does the work. The bad side of these dynamic linking stuff is that it
>     introduces an unnecessary dependency on libdl. It doesn't use anything
>     from libdl, but by linking to it it adds a dependency to the ELF header.

The problem is that the patch removes the --export-dynamic flag that
some modules require if they use functions provided by jed.  As I
recall, Paul has some modules that do this.  Is there any particular
reason why the patch removed this?

Thanks,
--John

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