Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 23:10:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ben@stuyts.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp cannot find libalias Message-ID: <199806062210.XAA04727@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 12:04:30 PDT." <199806011904.MAA00827@dingo.cdrom.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 ?
> > > This is the wrong place to do it. dlopen() should honour the standard
> > > library path for the format of the executable calling it. I proposed an
> >
> > So you're basically saying we should search through the hint cache or,
> > if set, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead. Well fine. I had one idea for
> > fixing it and I sent in my diffs. You then shot down my idea with
> > a better one and ... - please complete the sentence. :-)
>
> Not even the hint cache. Note that this is the a.out rtld; I don't
> know (yet) where to look for the ELF one.
>
> Index: rtld.c
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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