Using linker scripts with dlopen

[Carmelo AMOROSO]

On 27/07/2011 1.18, Howard B. Golden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Gentoo Linux, many important shared libraries are represented by linker scripts rather than the actual library. For GHC Haskell, I created a patch (see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2615) that looks beyond the linker script when a dlopen attempts to load the shared object and gets a linker script instead. Recently, I noticed that this code has been adopted by others for different languages. This got me thinking that there might be some interest in incorporating this feature directly into libc.
> 
> Please let me know if there is any interest and I will send a patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Howard B. Golden
> Northridge, California, USA
> 
> 
The linker script are used when building, not at runtime when shared
libraries are loaded. So dlopen("/usr/lib/libc.so") is simply wrong.

cheers