From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 7 13:50:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04899 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04886 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23364; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 21:22:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806072022.VAA23364@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ben@stuyts.nl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp cannot find libalias In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jun 1998 18:48:10 -0000." <199806071848.LAA21986@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 21:22:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I've been away for a week..... > > > > I'll look into getting the elf side of this working and commit the > > changes. Does anyone have any objections to dlopen() searching for > > the lib if it has no ``/''s in the name ? > > You mean in the LD_PATH, etc.? No. > > You mean in the current directory? Yes. No, I mean using the rtld routines for loading a library (rtfindfile() in the a.out world). As it happens, the elf side of things already searches (although it disallows relative path names), so I went ahead and applied the same logic to the a.out side of things. > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message