Re: Stale files in /usr/X11/bin ?

[Yury Tarasievich <grog@xxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:22:55AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
>
> > -On [20050325 09:22], Yury Tarasievich (grog@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> > > BTW, is there any standard method to force linking against specific 
> > > revision of shared lib, so one could generally link against lib.so, 
> > > being symlink to lib.so.x, vs. lib.so.x itself?
>
>
> Do you want to link directly against lib.so instead of lib.so.x? That's
> broken.

Yes, that's what I'd want to do. Shame it's broken.

> > ELF annex the ELF loader does not cater for this.
> Precisely.
> > ELF looks at the libname.so entries in its cache.  These are typically
> > symbolically linked to the highest versioned libname.so.N.
> Nope. The dynamic loader looks up the Shared Object Name in the cache
> or tries it via some special patterns as file name in standard locations.
<...>
> Exactly. The dynamic linker doesn't care at all about version numbers.

I'm out of my depth here, but what is, then, when binary has inside it 
references to lib...so.<n>?

> > No standard way short of changing symbolic links, but this also influences
> > run-time behaviour.
>
>
> Not really. The libc.so --> libc.so.4 link is used by the _static_ linker,
> You could use varsyms to change the behaviour on a per-case base.

Sorry, I don't really know what the varsym is.


--regards