On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:19:22 +0200
"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> >> However, I don't know how we can do this. Does anybody have input,
> >> ideas? One way would be to use rtld/libmap, like in FreeBSD, but I
> >> don't 100% like this approach. I'd like to find something more
> >> elegant. But I'm kind of stuck here, maybe somebody has some ideas to
> >> contribute?
> >
> > The thought that comes immediately to mind is that variant
> > symlinks may be of help here.
>
> varsyms do not necessarily help here, because at link time the soname
> might be stored in the binary, which means that the varsym is not being
> used at runtime. We would need some way to have a proxy lib at link
> time, but a varsym at runtime.
>
> AH! (bulb lights up)
>
> how about:
>
> libpthread.so
> proxy lib. ONLY used for linking, not for runtime usage.
> has set its soname to "librealpthread.so.0"
>
> librealpthread.so.0
> is a varsym link to either one of the threading libs.
Hmm - "All problems in computer science can be solved by adding
another level of indirection" :)
> -pthread would translate to -lpthread. however, libpthread.so has set a
> soname, so that this soname will be used by the rtld. this means that
> all binaries in general obey the ABI (defined functions) defined by
> libpthread.so, however they will use the lib pointed to by
> librealpthread.so.0, which then can be libc_r.so.5 or libthread_xu.so.1.
>
> makes sense?
Sounds good to me.
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