On 19-03-2010 11:47:37 -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Martin Kersten wrote:

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Also portability over all platforms is point of concern, there is some old old out there, e.g. HP-UX.

Ok, then I'll make the patch specific to OpenBSD unless someone here has a preferred solution.

Well, you haven't shown us your patch, but in general dlopen is a very smart function, that does things like adding the right extension for the platform at hand, so in general one should try hard to benefit from it's -- sometimes really just black -- "magic".