Re: ia32-libs and dynamic loading paths

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Thomas Steffen <steffen.list.account@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/19/05, Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net> wrote:
>> Shouldn't multiarch solve these problems as well? 
>
> Maybe, but it seems to be a lot more complicated. I have a 32bit and a
> 64bit root, because I have both systems installed. In the 64bit
> system, I mount the 32bit system on /mnt/sda3. I have set up
> /etc/ld.so.conf to point there, but because of dlopen() a lot of
> libraries don't work.
>
>> Then packages would
>> install their modules in /usr/lib/$arch/$package (or was it
>> /usr/lib-$arch/$package?) and everyone should be happy.
>
> Yes, it probably would, but I rather have a solution that works now
> than some better solution much later. That will not harm multiarch,
> but it will give the users a working system much sooner.
>
> Thomas

The dlopen should use relative paths instead. That should solve the
problem in all cases and make ld.so.conf work for the plugins too.

MfG
        Goswin