Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:13:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/etc rc src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <199805272013.NAA01620@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 19:40:36 BST." <199805271840.TAA17779@awfulhak.org>
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> > Well, there is no real solution for that I'm afraid.. > > > > At runtime shared libs wil be resolved via rtld which knows > > where to look for libs. > > > > Systems that rely on libs being in /usr/lib via hard path will > > fail, ie Makefiles with a wired in hard path, we can then argue > > to death who is broken... > > > > Another story is what we are going to do with /usr/local/lib :( > > Any ideas for /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/loadalias.c ? It dlopen()s and > dlsym()s with a fixed path prefix. Ideally you should be able to pass a library name to dlopen() and have it do the search for you based on the current search path. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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