From kde-core-devel  Wed Aug 01 10:06:03 2001
From: Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:06:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KlibLoader and friends
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:33:37AM +0100, Mike Richardson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:19, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:02:55AM +0100, Mike Richardson wrote:
> > > I've been working on embedding python in an app (Rekall) and have hit a
> > > KLibLoader related problem.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > So, can KLibLoader et al be extended to allow RTLD_GLOBAL to be passed to
> > > dlopen in some (portable - I noticed that ltld.c defines a portable
> > > global flag, but never uses it?) way. One possibility might be to extend
> > > the X-KDE-Library entry in .desktop files to allow something like
> > >
> > > X-KDE-Library=libfoobar,flags
> > >
> > > in which case a simple change to the .desktop file sorts things.
> > > Alternatively, X-KDE-Library-Flags being defined as a standard entry
> > > perhaps?
> >
> > I think that's exactly why George added the globalLibary() method to
> > KLibLoader, which should exactly do what you're looking for.
> >
> > Bye,
> >  Simon
> 
> Thanx. I guess this is 2.2?

Yup :)

Bye,
 Simon