Libtool modules and symbol clashes

[Simon White]

Hi,

I have some modules with the same exported interface.  All modules are built to 
hide all symbols by default with only the public ones being marked as 
__attribute__((visibility("default"))).  They are designed to be drop in 
replacements, however sometimes more than one of these modules may need to be 
loaded at he same time.

I've successfully lt_dlopen'ed multiple libraries and used lt_dlsym to resolve 
the names in each.  Calling via the returned pointers works as expected.

However if one of those modules internally calls a function that is also marked 
as being exported it does not necessarily call the function in its own library. 
 Depending on order it may call the function that exists in the other library 
instead.  Note that both modules are only manually loaded and neither are 
loading symbols from each other.

Is this expected behaviour and/or is there a way to stop it?

Packages from MandrivaLinux 2007.1
libtool-1.5.20-9mdv2007.0
libltdl3-1.5.20-9mdv2007.0
binutils-2.16.91.0.7-3mdv2007.0
gcc-4.1.1-3mdk

Regards,
Simon



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