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Re: question on ebl openbackend dlopen()
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:36:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: question on ebl openbackend dlopen()
> Tangentally: The whole dlopen() - to load the backend - seems fairly
> non-static friendly, i.e no way to statically incorporate these
> elements. No argument, I just wanted to verify I wasn't missing something.
Yes, well, certain elfutils developers are thoroughly hostile to static
linking. Last I knew, Debian was using a local patch that builds all the
backends in rather than loading them. But I haven't looked at their
packages lately.