* Daniel Sands wrote on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:07:53AM CET: > > Now for another request: For dlopen on AIX, if you want to dlopen a > shared library (.a not .so), you need to include the flag RTLD_MEMBER > and append the name of the member .so to the name of the .a, in > parentheses. So to open libc, you would do: > > libcHandle = dlopen( "/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)", RTLD_MEMBER | RTLD_NOW); > > I would like 1) support for this in Libtool's lt_dlopen library, and 2) > a way to integrate this into the .la file. The simplest method, which > would be just fine with me, would be to name the internal object "shr.o" > and append that in the case that the library name ends in .a. But of > course the LA could be extended to explicitly support this too, by > supplying the member name and including a flag that this is a shared > library and not a mere shared object.
Could probably be done, I may look into it sometime after 2.2. Also the dlopen self issue, which should correctly be solved by using -bexpall. For now you should be able to work around the above (at least for libraries you created yourself) with runtimelinking (LDFLAGS=-Wl,-brtl). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
