Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:09:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken? Message-ID: <199809020709.AAA21908@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809020125.SAA16732@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Sep 1, 98 06:25:20 pm
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> No. Never. I wish you folks would get that idea out of your heads, > because it ain't gonna happen. It is not feasible, for reasons having > to do with the fact that some variables would end up existing in two > places, one in the original static executable and another in whatever > object you just dlopened. > > There are good reasons why these functions have never been supported > (by any vendor) in static executables. The vendor was too stupid to implement correct weak symbol support such that it worked when linked with libdlopen? Wait... this works on Sun machines, using libelf... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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