Re: Dynamically loadable modules (and Doc/ext.tex) work BEAUTIFULLY!

Jack Jansen (Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl)
Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:43:01 +0100

Recently, bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd) said:
>
> Also, I think I've found something at least misleading if not wrong in
> ext.tex. It says, in section 3.4 (Caveats) that a #! script shouldn't be
> able to correctly do dynamic loading. Being inclined to try out everything
> for myself, I was pleased to find that it does seem to work correctly.
>
You're right. The paragraph should say on *some* systems #! scripts
can't use dynamic loading. (The SGI Irix 4 dynamic loader
needed the pathname of the python binary to do dynamic loading).
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