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Subject: Re: Anyone got GNU `dld' ported to FreeBSD? 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Terry Lambert said:
 > >  > Ours works just fine too, but I can't use dynamic linking from a
 > >  > statically-linked application, which is what sysinstall needs to be.
 > > 
 > > What is your problem exactly when you try to use dlopen in a statically
 > > compiled program?
 > 
 > The dynamic linking code is in the crt0.o, since it must be static
 > in the binary in order to be used to implement shared library mapping.
 > 
 > It is *not* in the non-shared library crt0.o.
 > 
 
Could we add the dynamic shared stuff to the static crt0.o and add a provision
not to attempt to load dynamic modules when a program starts?

I have not taken a look at the shared crt0.o  in a long time so I don't
know to what it has mutated 8)

	Cheers,
	Amancio