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Re: forestalling GNU incompatibility - proposal for binary relative dynamic linking
Edward Peschko <esp5@pge.com> writes:
> I was told that the two projects were basically almost 'joined at the hip';
> that in order to make changes in one, that you often needed to make
> changes in the other.
That is an exaggeration. In fact, gcc and glibc routinely change
without affecting the other.
> So, going back to my original point, is this true? In order to make
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH rpath aware, would the changes be localized in glibc,
> or would hooks be needed in binutils and in gcc? What work would be
> involved?
As I understood your original proposal, it involved changing how the
dynamic linker interprets LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That change would be to
the dynamic linker, which is part of glibc. No change to gcc would be
required at all.
If such a change is adopted into glibc, then there is a part of the
program linker which also looks at LD_LIBRARY_PATH and should probably
also be changed. This is not a very important part of the linker,
though, and mainly exists to give better warnings. The linker is, of
course, part of the binutils, not part of gcc.
Ian