Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:19:35 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rtld enhancement to add osversion sub-directory search Message-ID: <20090213001935.GA21752@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200902122119.n1CLJOmI092041@ambrisko.com> References: <20090212201101.GI2723@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <200902122119.n1CLJOmI092041@ambrisko.com>
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Kostik Belousov writes: > | There is a popular feature, unfortunately, not supported by FreeBSD > | ld.so, called Dynamic String Tokens, see > | http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/appendixc-4?l=en&a=view > | > | I have almost abandoned patch that adds support for $ORIGIN, $OSREL, > | $OSNAME, and $PLATFORM. Quite amazingly, it merged with today CURRENT > | without serious conflicts. > | http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/rtld_locks.4.patch > > That is an interesting feature, however, it almost seems backwards for > me if I understand it correctly. I need old binaries to find the library > it was built with and not new ones based on the base OS. The plus that > I see with their feature is for a library that has been optimized for a > specific type of CPU etc. The Solaris rtld features are very useful when you want to export a volume with a bunch of apps over NFS, and the clients are running different releases or different architectures. It can probably also solve your problem if you bother to place different library versions in different directories and set your library path appropriately. As you mention, it's also useful for optimization; people who install binary releases don't need to tolerate libraries that have been compiled to run on an 80486 DX.
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