On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Steve Langasek wrote: > FWIW, I find that -Bsymbolic tends to be useful in its own right; I've
Oh, it is *very* useful when not using versioned symbols. It's just that it gets far more difficult to have namespace clashes when using versioned symbols (as long as the versioning ALSO has the library name as a prefix, I suppose -- glibc does it this way), so -Bsymbolic is less necessary then. > never met anyone who had a good reason for trying to override a library's > internal references, but I have seen many cases where not using Some tricks using LD_PRELOAD *might* just require that. Well, since we will NOT be compiling libc with -Bsymbolic (eek!), this is less of an issue. > It's just that -Bsymbolic doesn't solve this particular problem. Indeed. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
