Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [Xpert] XFree 4.0.1 module loading

Michael Madore
2000-08-10T17:00:20Z

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.