Re: Opt out style recommends
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Binding *is* lazy by default, but loading of NEEDED libraries is eager
> since ELF dynamic symbol references don't say which library they're
> expected to be resolved in (perhaps the best *and* worst feature of ELF
> dynamic linking). If we made the absence of a NEEDED library non-
> fatal, that would put off failure until the application used a symbol
> from the missing library, but at that point I don't think there's any
> good way for the application to handle failure gracefully.
Apparently Solaris has support for optional shared libraries. It seems
like something that would be useful to have on Linux/glibc.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/02/msg00261.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2013-02/msg00017.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.tizen.devel/4892
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