Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Oleg Polyanski <Oleg.Polianski@team.telstraclear.co.nz>
List: current-users
Date: 08/27/2002 14:23:29
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> > % The non-trivial part being to get all the information from
> > the statically linked binary into tables that dlopen() can
> > access. This part will probably need some fiddling while
> > linking.
>
> You also have to fully re-implement most of ld.elf_so, including
> all of the dependency processing and all of the relocation stuff.
>
> As I said, dlopen() requires the ELF dynamic linker. Whether or
> not you reimplement it from scratch or use the one we already have
> is up to you.
No, it doesn't. Otherwise, for instance, AIX is a mirage.
Take care,
Oleg