Re: .ONESEHLL not working as expected in 3.82

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:37:29 -0400
> 
> On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 20:19 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:58:54 -0400
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 23:00 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > That would be nice, indeed.
> > > 
> > > OK, pushed.
> > 
> > Thanks!  But I see you kept global_dl and the call to dlopen with the
> > 1st argument NULL.  What is the purpose of these now?
> 
> Basically it's there to handle Guile being already compiled into make,
> via direct linking at build time, in a generic way.

If this is only for stuff linked into Make at build time, then I can
do that on Windows.

> > My plan was to write dlopen and dlsym, and add them to
> > w32/compat/posixfcn.c.  But I need to understand the semantics of
> > global_dl in order to do that correctly.
> 
> It's up to you how you think it best to implement, whether it makes more
> sense to try to reimplement POSIX functions, or do it at a higher level.
> Whatever is simpler.

Emulating Posix functions is simpler, because I already wrote that for
Gawk.  I just need a simple extension to handle global_dl in the above
sense.

Thanks.