Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:13:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809021512180.6135-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199809020125.SAA16732@austin.polstra.com>
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Well depending on your reasons you could make a "static but linked tortld" executable by specifying the specific ar-chives for the libs... But what _are_ your reasons? -Brian On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809011733280.353-100000@picnic.mat.net>, > Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> wrote: > > > Another tought occurred, tho: Will those functions finally be > > available for statically linked elf images? > > 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. > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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