Re: About Libraries

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Nagesh Bhattu Sristy wrote:

> 	In the current lsb-standard a library libnsl.so.1 is not included
> but it is present in the system V ABI.

libnsl (and TLI/XTI) is not included in the LSB.

> 	In this test-tool set the symbols in various libraries are taken
> and if the application is using other than these symbols then appropriate
> error message is given to the user(if I am correct). How different is this
> from the application appcert of solaris which does this by utilizing the
> versioning information and public and private symbol information of
> libraries them-selves.

The are very similar. Solaris & Linux seem to use the symbol versions in
slightly different ways though. In the LSB, if the symbol is not included,
it is essentially "private", and should not be used.


                                Stuart

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