Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:17:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dholland@cs.toronto.edu (David Holland) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dholland@cs.toronto.edu, peter@netplex.com.au, jabley@clear.co.nz, freebsd@xaa.iae.nl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <199809210817.BAA21935@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <98Sep20.194011edt.37911-17305@qew.cs.toronto.edu> from "David Holland" at Sep 20, 98 07:40:08 pm
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> > I would be interested in this. I know that FreeBSD's old a.out > > linker is architecturally incapable of enforcing symbol existance > > at link time so that ld.so doesn't have to, at load time, without > > about 40 hours (which I don't have) of hacking. > > Note that ld.so still has to, in general, because the libraries ld.so > sees may not be the same ones that ld saw, and might be lacking the > symbols whether or not they were originally present. You mean "has to" in the "if it were correct code" sense, not "has to" in the "it does this sense". If you meant otherwise, you need to reread the code; it *doesn't* do this, though it *should*. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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