I am just experimenting with a plugin loader and I found
that there are problems with external symbols which are
loaded at runtime.
The solution is to add RTLD_GLOBAL to the dlopen mode,
but I am not sure if this would cause other problems.
Is this patch OK to go in?
diff --git a/src/plugin.c b/src/plugin.c
index 4c7c45c..e871032 100644
--- a/src/plugin.c
+++ b/src/plugin.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ dlloaderLoadPlugin (CompPlugin *p,
else
sprintf (file, "lib%s.so", name);
- dlhand = dlopen (file, RTLD_LAZY);
+ dlhand = dlopen (file, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
if (dlhand)
{
PluginGetInfoProc getInfo;
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