Alternate character for dollar sign in $ORIGIN?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 04 2019, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey,
>
>> Does GNU allow an alternate character? 
>
> No. :-(
>
> The relevant code is in ..._search_needed() in ld/emultempl/elf32.em
> where there is:
>
>       while ((var = strchr (filename + offset, '$')) != NULL)
>
> So either you are going to have to get creative about escaping the dollar
> sign, or else generate a patch for the linker...

You would also need to change the runtime linker.  It's part of the ABI.

Andreas.

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