From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755497AbZHDNCF (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:02:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755478AbZHDNCF (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:02:05 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55407 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755477AbZHDNCE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:02:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090804.060212.01750529.davem@davemloft.net> To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: mingo@elte.hu, acme@redhat.com, kyle@mcmartin.ca, jens.axboe@oracle.com, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org, williams@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1249378140.7924.168.camel@twins> References: <20090803015430.GG25334@ghostprotocols.net> <20090804092540.GA29778@elte.hu> <1249378140.7924.168.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:29:00 +0200 > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >> >> > +static void load_perf_bfd_demangle(void) >> > +{ >> > + void *handle = dlopen("libbfd-2.19.51.0.2-17.fc11.so", RTLD_NOW); >> >> Hm, this does not look like a very generic solution. Is there some >> way to do a library search to figure out the name? I guess a glob >> match on /usr/lib/libbfd*.so? > > I'd simply go for libbfd.so and raise a bug report against fedora. A > link archive named .so is just stupid. It really isn't, I find it surprising why people are so up in arms about this. It's a quite common technique.