Re: [ddj@hks.net: Re: linuxconf]
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 01:37:05PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> This looks like a significant issue:
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> Re: LinuxConf, my big complaint is that the plug-in config "modules" are
> written in C++, and are dynamically loaded object files. You probably
> know C++ tends to only link to object files compiled with similar
> versions of the compiler. So, you can't build a LinuxConf module with
> GCC 2.7 and have it work on a system on which LinuxConf itself was
> compiled with GCC 2.8.
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> The proper workaround is probably to exclusively use "C" linkages for
> the module interface.
I would prefer to be able to implement a config module in other languages
(C, perl, bash, ...). Not every package author/maintainer out there groks
C++. If we go the linuxconf way, we should suggest that to the author.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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