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Re: [Help-smalltalk] gnu-smalltalk 3.4.2 build fails (+ issue tracker we
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Roland Plüss |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-smalltalk] gnu-smalltalk 3.4.2 build fails (+ issue tracker web bug) |
Date: |
Tue, 03 May 2011 21:51:39 +0200 |
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On 05/03/2011 12:40 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 12:52 AM, Roland Plüss wrote:
>> Should this not be the job of the dynamic linker to resolve libraries
>> instead of the app messing with it?
>
> No, the dynamic does assume that the app know the soname (it is a bad
> idea to pass things like "libfoo.so" without the full soname to the
> dynamic linker, because you don't know what ABI you'll get; and anyway
> it doesn't work for glibc).
>
> So, it is the job of the VM to insulate this from Smalltalk programs.
> Then they can do
>
> DLD addLibrary: 'libc'
>
> rather than
>
> DLD addLibrary: 'libc.so.6'
>
> or
>
> DLD addLibrary: 'libSystem.dylib'
>
> and so on.
Would it not have been better to improve the DLD.addLibrary call than
introducing a glue? Or is this affecting only libc?
--
Yours sincerely
Plüss Roland
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