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Subject: Re: how about a mod_dld w/ libdl? 
In-reply-to: jclary's message of Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:23:15 -0800.
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:33:07 -0600
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
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If someone cares to check the archives on this, there is a chap in
Hawaii who had added support for ELF. I exchanged mail with him a
few months back about getting it into 1.2, but have since been 
distracted.


> 
> I just noticed mod_dld only uses the GNU libdld, which only support a.out
> format binaries.  I'm running a 100% ELF system here so it bombs when
> I link with libdld...
> 
> I've heard someone made an ELF version of libdld, but its supposed to
> be much less efficient than libdl...  
> 
> I guess from what I've read that libdl is only supported on solaris
> and linux, and possibly a few other variant systems, but since
> linux is so widely used these days someone might want to write
> support for libdl into Apache.
> 
> If noone else has one, or noone wants to do it, I'll do it and
> send in patches.
> 
> Jason S. Clary <jclary@futurefx.com>