Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 21:22:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ben@stuyts.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp cannot find libalias Message-ID: <199806072022.VAA23364@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jun 1998 18:48:10 -0000." <199806071848.LAA21986@usr06.primenet.com>
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> > I've been away for a week.....
> >
> > I'll look into getting the elf side of this working and commit the
> > changes. Does anyone have any objections to dlopen() searching for
> > the lib if it has no ``/''s in the name ?
>
> You mean in the LD_PATH, etc.? No.
>
> You mean in the current directory? Yes.
No, I mean using the rtld routines for loading a library
(rtfindfile() in the a.out world). As it happens, the elf side of
things already searches (although it disallows relative path names),
so I went ahead and applied the same logic to the a.out side of
things.
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
--
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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