Re: Stale files in /usr/X11/bin ?
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:22:55AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
>
>>-On [20050325 09:22], Yury Tarasievich (grog@grsu.by) wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, is there any standard method to force linking against specific
>>>revision of shared lib, so one could generally link against lib.so,
>>>being symlink to lib.so.x, vs. lib.so.x itself?
>
>
> Do you want to link directly against lib.so instead of lib.so.x? That's
> broken.
Yes, that's what I'd want to do. Shame it's broken.
>>ELF annex the ELF loader does not cater for this.
> Precisely.
>>ELF looks at the libname.so entries in its cache. These are typically
>>symbolically linked to the highest versioned libname.so.N.
> Nope. The dynamic loader looks up the Shared Object Name in the cache
> or tries it via some special patterns as file name in standard locations.
<...>
> Exactly. The dynamic linker doesn't care at all about version numbers.
I'm out of my depth here, but what is, then, when binary has inside it
references to lib...so.<n>?
>>No standard way short of changing symbolic links, but this also influences
>>run-time behaviour.
>
>
> Not really. The libc.so --> libc.so.4 link is used by the _static_ linker,
> You could use varsyms to change the behaviour on a per-case base.
Sorry, I don't really know what the varsym is.
--regards
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