<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>So I guess I'm a bit late with this but Debian has been using the</TT> <TT>--disable-dynamic-greeter option since modularization.  Any reason</TT> <TT>loading it dynamically is better?</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> The comment in configure.ac: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> # Not all OS'es built dynamic greeter in monolith, but all the ones supported </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> # in the modular tree should be able to use it. We'll leave this here in case </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> # some are found that can't. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> seemed to indicate the static version was done because some O/S were unable to dynamically load a shared library. I recall checking in the code and found other modules, xserver notably, that use dlopen. That's an indication there should be no such O/S left. Using one method rather than both allows to untangle the source code in the makefile and reduce the complexity of the configuration. Later on I realized there were no reasons given as to why there was a shared library in the first place. I cannot figure out where else it could be used. I have another series which haven't got much review: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-September/012499.html">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-September/012499.html</A> </BODY> </HTML>