On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Alex Riesen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 20:39, Jeff King<peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:27:06PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > >> > Thanks, that is a much better solution. And I don't know offhand of any > >> > portability problems in overriding the library at link time. > >> > >> Microsoft's compiler and libraries? MacOSX? > > > > Are you saying you know those to be platforms with problems, or are you > > asking whether those platforms will have problems? > > Both: MS never had weak/vague linkage, but I don't know about MacOSX. This is not about weak or vague linkage. This is plain basic linker feature where no library object needs to be linked if there is no symbol to resolve. > I suspect them to have the same deficiency, but I'd be glad to be wrong. Are you able to test it? Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html