[Cairo] ELF shared library improvements [0/4]

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:44:51PM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> Would the following proposal/convention work?

No, because:

> Slim provides two header files, (maybe slim.h and slim_internal.h). A
> user of slim, (say libic for example), would do the following:
> 
> icint.h
> -------
> #include <slim_internal.h>
> #include "ic.h"
> 
> ic.h
> ----
> #include <slim.h>

Recall that ic.h includes pixregion.h.  But pixregion.h *also*
includes slim.h, and we'd wind up defining all of pixregion's
symbols as export instead of import.  Which is bad.

I.e. your scheme works only if one package at a time uses slim.
Which sort of defeats the purpose.


r~