[IRCServices Coding] Dynamic Modules on OpenBSD

[Andrew Church]

>DL_LAZY is only needed for future compatibility, as stated in the
>OpenBSD 3.0 man page.
>man dlopen reports:
>"The path argument can either be an absolute pathname or it can be of
>the form ``lib<name>.so[.xx[.yy]]'' in which case the same library
>search rules apply that are used for ``intrinsic'' shared library
>searches.  The second argument currently has no effect, but should be
>set to DL_LAZY for future compatibility."

     Then it sounds like OpenBSD is already doing things the wrong way,
so I'll probably just disable dynamic modules entirely for it.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 22:07, Andrew Church wrote:
>>      DL_LAZY shouldn't be needed, and in fact goes contrary to what I want
>> (which is to resolve all symbols on load and fail if some are missing).
>> Did you read the manual page correctly?  As far as the underscores, I'll
>> see about putting in a check for those in the configure script.
>> 
>>   --Andrew Church
>>     achurch at achurch.org
>>     http://achurch.org/
>> 
>> >
>> >Hello Peeps
>> >
>> >On OpenBSD the flags to dlopen should be DL_LAZY, which is for future
>> >compatibility (according to its manpage), also, it needs an underscore
>> >prefixed onto any symbol you try and get from the modules (i believe
>> >this is due to the a.out binary format, and it isn't handled in BSD's
>> >dl* routines).
>> >I just tried a compile on OpenBSD 3.0, and ircservices doesn't handle
>> >either of these quirks, it should be a relatively simple
>> >makefile/configure change to get ircservices to account for them.
>> >
>> >Chris
>> >
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