BTW: user programs use of weak

[Ulrich Drepper]

"Kevin B. Hendricks" <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Not that it actually matters very much but user level programs do
> use weak symbol versioning.  For example the Java 3D code uses weak
> symbols to try to work around the problem that some OpenGL libraries
> has specialized functions that don't exist in every version of
> OpenGL (SGI only symbols/functions versus, Sun versus, ...).

This code should be rewritten to use dlopen(RTLD_DEFAULT,...).  This
is available at least in glibc and on Solaris.

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