Re: Debian patches

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/07/2010 09:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > Could I get some clarification on whether there's any desire for an
> > acceptable version of my patch to allow libpcre to be linked at
> > run-time?
>
> I certainly like the idea.

So distros would exchange putting libpcre in /lib with putting libltdl 
in /lib (since using libdl is a no-no for upstream, but statically 
linking libltdl is a no-no for many distributions).

Secondarily, grep is not using libtool, and the advantages of adding it 
together with libltdl would have to be evaluated too (also WRT portability).

So, I won't strongly oppose that, but I think that overall Debian is 
much better served by its current small patch.  It would have to be well 
weighed and should be an opt-in configure option anyway.

Paolo