Re: Alexandre Julliard : explorer: Work around the latest HAL binary compatibility breakage.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Module: wine
> Branch: master
> Commit: 9ae4e8d98efc952918bcdae86b2f640c4b062a3b
> URL:    http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=commit;h=9ae4e8d98efc952918bcdae8...
>
> Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org>
> Date:   Tue Sep 26 20:29:15 2006 +0200
>
> explorer: Work around the latest HAL binary compatibility breakage.
> -    if (!(dbus_handle = wine_dlopen(SONAME_LIBDBUS_1, RTLD_NOW, error, sizeof(error)))) goto failed;
> -    if (!(hal_handle = wine_dlopen(SONAME_LIBHAL, RTLD_NOW, error, sizeof(error)))) goto failed;
> +    /* Load libhal with RTLD_GLOBAL so that the dbus symbols are available.
> +     * We can't load libdbus directly since libhal may have been built against a
> +     * different version but with the same soname. Binary compatibility is for wimps. */

Yet another Redhat stumbling block ;)


But they warn in pretty large letters:

cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/hal.pc
...
Cflags: -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I${includedir}/hal
...

#ifndef DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE
#error "Please define DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE to acknowledge your understanding that D-BUS hasn't reached 1
.0 and is subject to protocol and API churn. See the README for a full explanation."
#endif

ciao, Marcus