libltdl vs System.loadLibrary

Mon Nov 4 06:25:00 GMT 2002

Yesterday I spent some time debugging a problem I was having with
System.loadLibrary.
There are at least three places in libgcj which do some kind of mapping
from a short library name to a system library name, and none of them are
System.mapLibraryName(), which we don't implement. I looked into
cleaning this up, but I'm confused about our use of libltdl.
What does libltdl buy us beyond ldopen/ldclose? Could we just remove
it?
AG