Re: lt_dlopenadvise ignores advice

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Anton Ertl wrote:
> The program below is a variation of the my_dlopenext example from the
> manual.  Calling it with the correct extension works, but calling it
> without extension does not:
>
> [c8:~/tmp:15553] a.out libffi.so
> 0x501230
> [c8:~/tmp:15554] a.out libffi
> my_dlopenext: file not found

I don't believe that libltdl itself knows anything about shared 
library naming conventions.  It is intended that the .la files be 
installed (as libtool --mode=install does) and that the application 
specify the name of the .la file.  This works since libltdl opens the 
.la file to learn the name of the module to load.  In addition to 
learning the name, libltdl can do any additional pre-loading that the 
module needs in case the OS does not support it or the module itself 
does not know all its dependencies.

Is there a reason why you would not want to do that?

Bob
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