User problems with the DLLoader

[Felix Kühling]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 16:59 -0500 schrieb Adam Jackson:
[snip]
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2138
> >
> > Basically what I'm aiming for there is the loader knows at build time
> > whether it built dlloader or elfloader modules, and prefers the appropriate
> > type.  I haven't tested that patch too thoroughly but it works in a
> > modified form for Ubuntu so it can't be too awful.
> 
> What this won't do, of course, is change the behaviour of the loader for 
> existing installations, which appears to be "load whichever module readdir 
> returns first that matches one of the loader filename patterns".  But there's 
> nothing to be done there.

I'm assuming a user who runs make install in an xorg source tree. So
that situation would be fixed by your patch. I'll give it a try with
different module formats soon. Is your patch ready to be committed or
does it need more testing or approval by someone. 

> 
> - ajax

P.S.: Making snapshots that work with old and new Xservers could be fun
though. ;-) Some comments in bug #2138 gave me a rough idea.

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