dynamic linker problem

[Neil Youngman]

We have a system, which uses dlopen() to load some libraries.

On Solaris and SCO system V we create a library with a line like:

        cc -fpic a.o b.o -ly -o libx.so

then when we load libx with dlopen() it also loads liby.so. 
On Linux we have been unable to get this to work. There are 
possible workarounds, but we would like to stick with the 
same solution that we already use on our other systems. 

Does anyone if this can be made to work on Linux?

Neil