[Python-apps-team] Bug#713017: find_library() in python-webm

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Sat Jun 22 13:13:06 UTC 2013


* Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>, 2013-06-22, 17:41:
>As for the hard-coded library names, this is unfortunate but was needed 
>to make it work on all the platforms we support (I can't remember for 
>sure, but I think "find_library" did not work on OSX for example). We 
>*could* use "find_library" once it has been proven to work everywhere

Please don't, unless you fancy your software segfaulting. find_library 
is fundamentally broken: it gives you a library with unpredictable ABI.

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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