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From: Don Dugger <n0ano@valinux.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: Wolverine RPMs
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:47:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805121@msgid-missing> (raw)

Bill raises an interesting problem.  I'd like to suggest a solution and see
what everyone thinks.  Since all of the shared objects are loaded by code
in `ld-linux.so' I can modify the IA32 version of that library to first try
an absolute path and, if that fails, because it's missing or has the wrong
architecture, to then tack on a unique prefix, either something like
`/usr/ia32' or the contents of an environment variable like `LD_IA32_PATH'.

This is a little ugly since all of the distro's would have to install s
special version of `ld-linux.so' but at least this is just one library
so that cuts the pain down a little bit.

Does anyone have a better idea?

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:59:31AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> The biggest problem I've seen is with programs that have hardcoded paths
> for shared objects they dlopen(). Obviously this fails pretty badly when
> the ia32 binary trys to dlopen() an ia64 library.
> 
> Notably, this affects GTK+ when trying to use themes, and anything that
> uses PAM.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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Don Dugger
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-09-05 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05 16:47 Don Dugger [this message]
2001-09-05 17:57 ` [Linux-ia64] Re: Wolverine RPMs Doug Beattie
2001-09-05 19:20 ` Saxena, Sunil
2001-09-10  9:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-09-10 17:15 ` Christoph Hellwig

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