[IRCServices Coding] Dynamic Modules on OpenBSD

[Chris Plant]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 02:44, Andrew Church wrote:
Hehe, came to that conclusion myself :).
> >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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