From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:21:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * ltmain.in: temporarily disable dlopen_self when linking with
X-Git-Tag: release-1-2f~67
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* ltmain.in: temporarily disable dlopen_self when linking with
-static or -all-static, until we figure out how to test whether it
works at configure time
* TODO: remember to fix this later
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 693dfa830..c6f9bf423 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 1999-03-08  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
 
+	* ltmain.in: temporarily disable dlopen_self when linking with
+	-static or -all-static, until we figure out how to test whether it
+	works at configure time
+	* TODO: remember to fix this later
+
 	* tests/build-relink.test: when hell is expected to fail, run it
 	within a subshell and redirect stderr to stdout, so that dynamic
 	linker errors are only printed in verbose mode
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 59390c565..4b6612e6b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ so that the size of lt_preloaded_symbols can be reduced.
 In the future:
 **************
 
+* test whether dlopening and self-dlopening work for statically linked
+  programs.  Self-dlopening, for example, is known to fail on DEC
+  OSF/1, for programs compiled with -static.  On other platforms,
+  dlopen may even fail to link.
+
 * Godmar Back writes:
   libltdl uses such stdio functions as fopen, fgets, feof, fclose, and others.
   These functions are not async-signal-safe. While this does not make 
diff --git a/ltmain.in b/ltmain.in
index d7a340ec7..b6382e6f4 100644
--- a/ltmain.in
+++ b/ltmain.in
@@ -927,6 +927,10 @@ compiler."
 	if test -n "$link_static_flag"; then
 	  compile_command="$compile_command $link_static_flag"
 	  finalize_command="$finalize_command $link_static_flag"
+	  # Some platforms do not support self-dlopening with static
+	  # linking.  Assume self-dlopening does not work in this case
+	  # till we figure out how to test it at configure time
+	  dlopen_self=no
 	fi
 	continue
 	;;
@@ -1054,6 +1058,10 @@ compiler."
 	if test -z "$pic_flag" && test -n "$link_static_flag"; then
 	  compile_command="$compile_command $link_static_flag"
 	  finalize_command="$finalize_command $link_static_flag"
+	  # Some platforms do not support self-dlopening with static
+	  # linking.  Assume self-dlopening does not work in this case
+	  # till we figure out how to test it at configure time
+	  dlopen_self=no
 	fi
 	continue
 	;;