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Re: ELF extension for starting symbol search from module dependencies
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>
- To: Luca Barbieri <ldb at ldb dot ods dot org>
- Cc: Debian-Devel ML <debian-devel at lists dot debian dot org>, GNU binutils ML <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, GNU libc ML <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:59:45 +0200 (MET DST)
- Subject: Re: ELF extension for starting symbol search from module dependencies
- Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
On 22 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > Do you suggest your proposed change should only be activated for the png
> > library?
> The proposed change is activated for everything that is compiled with
> the -Blocal linker option.
Then you have to deal with consistency issues. They do not exist for
self-contained libraries that act locally only like png, but they may
arise with libraries that interact with the outer world, e.g. any that
makes use of networking. For example using different versions of the X11
library by different parts of a process will certainly lead to surprises.
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