Re: TODO

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 14:45 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:57:27AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >> They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have
> >> a needed-following link loader.
> >
> > What does this mean?
> 
> I assume that he is talking about ELF inherited dependencies. With 
> inherited dependencies, libraries which were not specified at link 
> time may appear in the output of `ldd' because one of the linked 
> libraries does require other non-listed libraries.
> 
Indeed.  The link-loader follows the NEEDED of shared libraries it loads
and loads *their* dependencies as well.

> Recent versions of Solaris do inherit shared library dependencies.
> 
Are you sure about that?!  Solaris 9 here doesn't.

> Probably Scott should have mentioned Linux instead since I recall a time 
> (possibly as recent 
> as Red Hat 5.0) when it did not inherit shared library dependencies.
> 
Nowhere near that recent.  Linux's ELF link-loader has, from what I
recall, *always* done it.  You'd have to go back to before ELF, I
suspect.

Scott
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