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Bug 624799 - Make dependency on libbrasero optional using dlopen()
Make dependency on libbrasero optional using dlopen()
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gthumb
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
Paolo Bacchilega
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-20 07:45 UTC by David Paleino
Modified: 2010-08-03 07:14 UTC
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Description David Paleino 2010-07-20 07:45:54 UTC 
Hello,
I'm forwarding a bug reported by a Debian user. ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584894 )

Fact is, gThumb now depends on libbrasero because of the burn_disc extension. Now, not everyone is pleased to have a dependency on a burning software, so my idea was to demote it to a Recommends.

However,

$ gthumb 
gthumb: error while loading shared libraries: libbrasero-burn.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$

This is because gthumb links everything. It might be an idea to use dlopen() for extensions (at least for this one), instead of linking?
This way, I wouldn't have an hard dependency on libbrasero.

Thank you,
David
Comment 1 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-07-20 09:13:43 UTC 
you can use "configure --disable-libbrasero" to remove the dependency
Comment 2 David Paleino 2010-07-20 10:32:04 UTC 
This doesn't seem a solution, to me. I'd like to be able to build gthumb with support to that extension. Users having libbrasero installed would then have the burn_disc extension active, users who don't will simply have it disabled.
Comment 3 Paolo Bacchilega 2010-07-24 10:32:38 UTC 
this doesn't seem feasible to me
Comment 4 André Klapper 2010-08-02 22:56:30 UTC 
=> WONTFIX?