[Glade-devel] [glade3, patch] load library module before calling *_get_type ()

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela]

Hi!

--- Tommi Komulainen <tommi.komulainen@nokia.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 22:45, ext Joaquin Cuenca
> Abela wrote:
> 
> [the "libglade" + foo -library instead of "libfoo"]
> 
> > That's the library that it's loaded by
> g_module_open in the code that you
> > move with your patch, and it's unrelated to the
> library that contains the
> > real Foo widget.
> 
> Is it really unrelated?  It's using the widgets in
> the widget library
> and thus needs to be linked with it, doesn't it?

Indeed, yes.  I missed that loading the helping lib
(libgladefoo) will automatically open libfoo.

[snip]
> In essence the whole module loading could actually
> be as simple as the
> following (unless I'm missing some fundamental
> reason for constructing a
> strictly formatted library name - I think it's just
> unnecessary.) 
> "library" is verbatim the attribute value, error
> checking and all
> ignored for brevity:
> 
> module = g_module_load (g_module_build_path
> (MODULES, library));
> if (!module)
> 	module = g_module_load (g_module_build_path (NULL,
> library));

That makes perfect sense to me.  If none else
disagrees, feel free to commit a patch with your
suggested changes, which should equal to your earliest
patch + this change.

Thank you for your collaboration!

Cheers,

> 
> 
> At least that's how I've understood g_module_open
> works, please correct
> me if I'm wrong.



=====
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc at yahoo dot com

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