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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bug in 2.0.5's dlopen() functionality Date: 31 Aug 1995 23:35:39 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <425h0b$j2l@reason.cdrom.com> References: <87pwhri1b7.fsf@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <41s307$rfn@reason.cdrom.com> <874tyz6qdm.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: rsanders@mindspring.com X-URL: news:874tyz6qdm.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> wrote: >Ick. Is that intended, or just the current state of affairs? ELF can >handle recursive shared library dependencies, and it's very very nice. >It certainly seems that this is something the current shared library >system should be able to handle. And I can swear that the current one >at least made some effort to. I guess it's time to RTFS. :) Well, that's just my understanding of it given about a 15 minute attempt to make this work myself. I could be wrong, and a thorough attempt to RTFS would indeed be highly advisable! If it turns out that I am wrong, I wouldn't mind a confirmation of this.. Jordan