[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.
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Jakub Wilk
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