Re: Issue with LSB 0.1: Dynamic Linking: Program Interpreter

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:

> This says the interpreter is /lib/ld-linux.so.2, however that is not
> correct for all values of *-*-linux-gnu.
> 
> In the glibc sources is the shlib-versions file which is used to determine
> the soname of the interpreter:
> 
> i.86-.*-linux.*         ld=ld-linux.so.2
> sparc64-.*-linux.*      ld=ld-linux.so.2
> sparc.*-.*-linux.*      ld=ld-linux.so.2
> alpha.*-.*-linux.*      ld=ld-linux.so.2
> arm.*-.*-linux.*        ld=ld-linux.so.2
> # We use the ELF ABI standard name for the default.
> .*-.*-.*                ld=ld.so.1
> 
> gcc also "knows" this value so that it knows what to pass to the linker for
> the -dynamic-linker argument.

Would a Linux application ever get a value other than ld-linux.so.2? That
is all that I have come across.


                                Stuart

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