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Re: Possible ld.so modifications
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Hearn <mike at theoretic dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:28:56 -0800
- Subject: Re: Possible ld.so modifications
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <1040154647.1223.36.camel@linux.local>
Mike Hearn wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be any reason why it wouldn't be possible to
> symbol lookup to only check the symbol tables of libraries the object
ELF has very clear symbol lookup rules and there won't be any changes
which violate this. If you want to avoid problems due to incompatible
versions of the same binary hammer some knowledge into the maintainers
of these packages. Most of them have no clue what compatibility means.
They are at fault at it is not acceptable to punish everybody with a
more complex and slower and incompatible dynamic linker just because
some people don't get their acts together.
If necessary fork the packages and maintain version with symbol
versioning or similar methods yourself.
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