[tex-live] Comment on libfontconfig

[Vladimir Volovich]

"fant" == Frank Küster writes:

 >> Ah, but is that going to be available/compatible on all those
 >> other systems as well, or does it introduce a new area of
 >> complexity and system dependence, requiring careful configure
 >> usage and conditional code?

 fant> No idea.  Google gives lots of manpage hits for "dlopen +BSD",
 fant> and at least enough for +HPUX and even +IRIX (usually a
 fant> particular bad candidate, isn't it?)  to believe it might be
 fant> there...

GNU autotools (autoconf/automake/libtool) provide portable
(cross-platform) API for dlopen, called libltdl. See e.g. here for
it's documentation:

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_165.html#SEC165

Best,
v.