On Friday December 4, 2009, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Right, but if we can resolve -lpcre to libpcre.so.0 then we can
> dlopen libpcre.so.0 without having to parse linker scripts.
There is some code in dlopen that does this (sort of). I haven't studied
it carefully yet. However, it basically uses ld.so's apparatus.
To give you an example, I ran the following command on my system and got
the results below:
hbg-srv3 ~ # ldconfig -p | grep libpcre.so
libpcre.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/libpcre.so.0
libpcre.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0
libpcre.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib32/libpcre.so.0
libpcre.so (libc6) => /usr/lib32/libpcre.so
It seems to me that we can pick the "latest" version for the right
platform as the proper one to load. I'm not sure I can define "latest"
at this point. Also, I'm not sure it will give the same answer as
parsing the linker script. I will look into this some more and report my
findings.
This approach may only work on GNU/Linux systems, but that's probably
sufficient. I don't know if this issue is relevant on other platforms.
Howard
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