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Re: shared libraries



also sprach Michael K. Edwards <m.k.edwards@gmail.com> [2004.12.07.2147 +0100]:
> So the server core can load these shared libraries with dlopen(), get
> the "factory" routines with dlsym(),

With dlopen(), why care about rpath or LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Just give
the full path or implement your own search path.

> In a perfect world, I'd give the libraries reasonably unique names
> and proper SONAMEs, drop them in /usr/lib, and not need RPATH.
> But what are the disadvantages to an absolute RPATH (not that
> ../lib kludge) as long as there are other reasons why the
> installed path to the binary has to be determined at build time?

I'll leave this up to be answered by some folks who witnessed the
libc6 migration from the first row.

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