[PATCH app-xdm 06/11] greeter: only build the shared library version

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:31 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> So I guess I'm a bit late with this but Debian has been using the
> --disable-dynamic-greeter option since modularization.  Any reason
> loading it dynamically is better?
> 


The comment in configure.ac:


        # Not all OS'es built dynamic greeter in monolith, but all the ones supported
        # in the modular tree should be able to use it. We'll leave this here in case
        # some are found that can't.

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:

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-September/012499.html




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