Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:44:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <199902060044.RAA20812@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902041927.LAA19876@vashon.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 4, 99 11:27:57 am
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> > Having experienced both sides of this, what I think would be good would > > be to be able to edit the RPATH in executables. That would allow the > > sysadmin to override it selectively. I don't know if that is feasible > > or not. > > That would be useful, but I'm afraid it may not be feasible for > executables. The RPATH string is in the .dynstr section, which > precedes text, data, and bss in the address space. If you made the > string longer, it would change the load addresses of text, data, and > bss. But executables don't contain the relocation information needed > for making the necessary adjustments in that case. Sounds like it's in the wrong order in the file... 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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