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On 09/06/2010 09:28 PM, Al wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I looked into many ebuilds, but didn't come to a final conclusion yet. |
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> I am rather confused. |
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> How does a program in Gentoo know, where to look for shared libraries? |
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The program doesn't know. But the runtime linker does. And those paths |
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are in /etc/ld.so.conf. This file gets updated automatically by portage |
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when needed. |
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But... sometimes the program also knows and can link against libraries |
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long after it has started up using a dlopen() call: |
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http://linux.die.net/man/3/dlopen |
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