Subject: Re: ELF shared objects for Perl 5
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/01/1998 12:14:37
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
: > If someone (Jonathan? :) can verify that the old ld.so had proper rpath and
: > export-dynamic (ld's -E) support, I can add a little hack to use ELF
: > semantics on `pmax' that has `ld.so' instead of `ld.elf_so'. If that's not
: > worth the effort, let me know.
:
: I'm not sure about the above support for ld.so, but I do know it did not
: have any dlopen() support, which I would think would be needed.
Hrmpf.
I may not put any hack in, and just `punt' for the 1.3[.1] releases if this
is true.
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