From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 6 15:26:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29871 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29856 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04727; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 23:10:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806062210.XAA04727@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Mike Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ben@stuyts.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp cannot find libalias In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 12:04:30 PDT." <199806011904.MAA00827@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 23:10:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [.....] -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message