Re: [Help-smalltalk] gnu-smalltalk 3.4.2 build fails (+ issue tracker web bug)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/03/2011 12:52 AM, Roland Plüss wrote:
> Should this not be the job of the dynamic linker to resolve libraries
> instead of the app messing with it?

No, the dynamic does assume that the app know the soname (it is a bad 
idea to pass things like "libfoo.so" without the full soname to the 
dynamic linker, because you don't know what ABI you'll get; and anyway 
it doesn't work for glibc).

So, it is the job of the VM to insulate this from Smalltalk programs. 
Then they can do

    DLD addLibrary: 'libc'

rather than

    DLD addLibrary: 'libc.so.6'

or

    DLD addLibrary: 'libSystem.dylib'

and so on.

Paolo