From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Madore Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:00:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Marc Aurele La France (tsi@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) said: > > > > Someone fixed the elfloader on ia64? Last I checked it doesn't > > > > even *build* without patches, but I haven't tried it too recently. > > > > > I'm building with a patched version of the elfloader. > > > > Is this patch available for integration into the base source? > > I'm not sure about his patch, but the patch we have only > allows it to build; it still doesn't work (we just use > the dlopen() loader). That's why we never submitted it. :) I think that my patch IS your patch. ;-) It's from the XFree 4.0 shipped with the Red Hat IA64 distro. So if I understand you correctly, applying that patch doesn't actually effect XFree86 beyond getting it to compile. In other words, the dlopen() method is independent of the patch? I guess my question now is: Should the dlopen() loader be able to resolve inter-module dependencies? If not, what is left to be done with the elf loader make it functional on IA64? Mike Madore Software Engineer TurboLinux, Inc.