Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:38:41 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sbufs in userland, proposed solution Message-ID: <3AB00101.DD771066@cup.hp.com> References: <200103140547.WAA04393@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > There is supposed to be an ELF "depends on" section added to > the dependent library, which the linker then uses to load the > depended upon library. > > For dynamic libraries, this is handled by the ld.so doing the > dirty work. In the static case, this is supposed to be done > by ld, instead. Static libraries aren't ELF objects themselves and thus won't ever contain a "depends on" section. The (possible) ELF objects in the archive can't have "depends on" sections, because those don't exist for relocatable objects if the objects are ELF in the first place. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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