Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 05:45:05 +0100 From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) To: nate@trout.sri.mt.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: proposed change to ld.so Message-ID: <9504190445.AA17309@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199504190329.VAA01681@trout.sri.MT.net> (message from Nate Williams on Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:29:06 -0600)
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>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> writes:
> Jean-Marc Zucconi writes:
>> >>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> writes:
>> >> Current ld.so can't load a shared library that depends on other shared
>> >> libraries (cascades). The patch below, which is taken from
>> >> NetBSD-curren.....
>>
>> > I've got this patch (or something very similar) in my development
>> > sources at home. However, there are much bigger problems with the ld
>> > code that I didn't want to make any additions to the code which might
>> > make the solution to the problems more complicated.
>>
>> Hmmm, do you plan to make your changes *soon*? I really need this, and
>> after all it is only a one line change in rtld.c (if (dl_cascade(smp)
>> == 0) return NULL;)
> To be honest, I have no idea how long this will take. I've been
> spending my time trying to understand the code and have spent little
> time with coding. I doubt anything will happen in the next week or so.
> What is causing the critical need for this?
"critical" may be exagerated, but this is the only way to get nTk
working. (nTk is a perl interface to Tk 4.0)
> Nate
Jean-Marc
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