User problems with the DLLoader

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 17:08, Felix Kühling wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 16:59 -0500 schrieb Adam Jackson:
> [snip]
>
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2138
> > >
> > > Basically what I'm aiming for there is the loader knows at build time
> > > whether it built dlloader or elfloader modules, and prefers the
> > > appropriate type.  I haven't tested that patch too thoroughly but it
> > > works in a modified form for Ubuntu so it can't be too awful.
> >
> > What this won't do, of course, is change the behaviour of the loader for
> > existing installations, which appears to be "load whichever module
> > readdir returns first that matches one of the loader filename patterns". 
> > But there's nothing to be done there.
>
> I'm assuming a user who runs make install in an xorg source tree. So
> that situation would be fixed by your patch. I'll give it a try with
> different module formats soon. Is your patch ready to be committed or
> does it need more testing or approval by someone.

Just testing, which could be either by me or by someone else.  I'm fairly sure 
it's correct but not convinced enough to inflict it on everyone else yet.  I 
don't think it needs much approval since I'm probably as close as we have to 
a loader maintainer.

- ajax
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