Re: GNOME 1 ABI involving libpng
>> Akira TAGOH <tagoh@debian.org> writes:
> I see. but I won't apply it to glib, because it may becomes a reason
> a compatibility is lost between ours and other distro. I think this
> is the same reason as you said.
Can you come up with a real case of broken compatibility that such a
change could cause? I must be missing something really obvious,
because I can't (c.f. my previous mails).
> To another solution, if there are an architecture which has broken
> RTLD_GLOBAL on Debian, I'll apply a patch to stop the glib2.0 build.
There isn't. Not even the vapourware architectures, I dare to guess.
> Then, in order to solve a problem like libpng3 issue completely, I'll
> apply a patch like Red Hat did for gdk-pixbuf. it means the image
> modules will be loaded without RTLD_GLOBAL.
I'm sorry, I didn't understand that. Do you mean that RH has a patch
that solves this problem which /does not/ involve patching glib but
gdk-pixbuf? If that exists and works, well, yes, that's acceptable,
too.
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