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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:34:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        victor@bsdes.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Missing dependencies on shared libraries
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0604151431230.9269@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060415.122657.111699385.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0604151411140.9269@sea.ntplx.net>
>            Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> : On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> :
> : > In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0604151358210.9220@sea.ntplx.net>
> : >            Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> : > : On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > :
> : > : > In message: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0604141439280.3685@sea.ntplx.net>
> : > : >            Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> : > : > : On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> : > : > :
> : > : > : > Hi,
> : > : > : > I found that ldd doesn't report libc as a dependency on most (all?)
> : > : > : > libraries:
> : > : > : >
> : > : > : > pato> ldd /usr/lib/libfetch.so
> : > : > : > /usr/lib/libfetch.so:
> : > : > : >        libssl.so.3 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.3 (0x4816a000)
> : > : > : >        libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x48198000)
> : > : > : >
> : > : > : > does anyone know why?
> : > : > :
> : > : > : AFAIK, it's being worked on.  It's not just libc either, -pthread
> : > : > : also has to start linking to libpthread.
> : > : >
> : > : > We don't record libc dependencies into shared libraries right now.  If
> : > : > we did, that would create some problems and solve some problems.  With
> : > : > symbol versioning, it most likely will become moot, since we'll never
> : > : > have to bump libc major version again...
> : > :
> : > : kan stated he was working on doing this, which is what I was
> : > : referring to above.
> : >
> : > That makes sense.  If you explicitly include libc on the command line
> : > to build the library, it is included...
> :
> : Here's the link to his original reply to -current.  Also, if you
> : look at linux shared libraries, you'll note they have dependencies
> : to libc.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is that on FreeBSD, the system built shared
> libraries don't have libc recorded in them because we don't add -lc on
> the commnad line to build them.  Other libraries do have it recorded
> in them, for example I have libxvidcore.so from some port on my
> system:

I guess the original poster confused me.  He said in another reply to
this thread that adding -lc failed to record a dependency on libc.  But
whatever, I think we're in agreement no matter how much we try to
imply we're not :-)

-- 
DE



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