From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 00:51:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA07393 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07386 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 00:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA07804; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:49:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:49:32 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mark Murray cc: shmit@kublai.com, John Polstra , Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken? In-Reply-To: <199809021916.VAA02181@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > Brian Cully wrote: > > > These routines are available to dynamically linked processes > > > ONLY. > > > > So does the 0598 version of 5.6 (and I don't think you get much more > > recent than that). > > For those who want statically-linked progs with functioning > dlsym/dlopen etc, you can get a near-as-dammit equivalent > by doing a dynamic link, but forcing the link to be against > the .a libraries. You have to link against at least one shared lib to get the _DYNAMIC goop for rtld. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message