Re: Versioned Symbols
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Someone was recently talking on the LSB list about the problem, and his
> proposed solution to to update ld.so to support what sounded like a
> resolution scope, ie libldap would require libpngx it would get _all_ of
> it's png symbols from libpngx no matter what symbols other libraries in
> the same link happen to declare.
Looks a bit like symbolic linking. Well, it is akin to force-versioning
symbols in ALL libraries. While it *would* work, it also removes the
LD_PRELOAD and other symbol overriding tricks people sometimes need.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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