[4683] in testers
Re: xalf and me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 24 21:41:03 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:40:48 -0400
Message-Id: <200105250140.VAA09561@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200105242156.RAA09191@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
>> Is it possible that we've got a fixable xalf bug here?
> Not really. The problem is pretty much impossible to solve.
Some conversation on -c dev led me to look at the most recent version
of xalf (0.12). It appears that on some platforms, including Linux,
it is possible to solve the problem using some magic I wasn't aware of
(specifically, dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, functionname)).
I hadn't gone to xalf 0.12 previously because I wanted to get off the
upgrade train and stop breaking the build so we could actually cut an
alpha release. But now it looks like xalf 0.7 has a more or less
fatal bug, so I will have to import 0.12 and whack it into shape. I
will do that as quickly as possible.
