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Re: libltdl obscures error messages
From: |
Gary V . Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: libltdl obscures error messages |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 21:29:16 +0100 |
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 9:51 pm, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Hi,
`Tag Marius,
> I would like to see the error reporting of libltdl be improved.
> Currently, it often happens that a dlopen attempt fails with "file not
> found" although in reality there was some other cause for the failure.
Most definitely. Believe it or not, things used to be actually much worse.
But there is still a lot of room for improvement.
> The fix would be to distinguish between "file not found" errors (which
> can be repaired by trying the next candidate), and other errors (which
> should be immediately passed to the caller).
That sounds like a good plan to me.
> I don't have a patch handy since I didn't found my way into the logic
> of ltdl.c yet. If you agree that something should be done about this
> situation, I'd be glad to try harder.
Some of the call paths are ridiculously over-complicated, but I am gradually
trying to tease out the knots. I think I finally reached a place where I
actually understand what is happening now. We would be extremely grateful
for any help you would like to offer...
Cheers,
Gary.
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- libltdl obscures error messages, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/24
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages,
Gary V . Vaughan <=
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/26
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/07/27
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/27
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/07/27
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/28
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/07/28
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Marius Vollmer, 2001/07/30
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/07/30
- Re: libltdl obscures error messages, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/07/30