On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:50:22PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> From: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
>
> When loading a library "libfoo.so" (depending on "libbar.so", located in an
> entirely different folder), with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libfoo.so", it
> returns an error:
>
> EAL: ./libfoo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> If the first dlopen() fails (here, because it can't find all dependencies),
> the code requires for a second dlopen() that looks for "./libfoo.so". It
> turns on pathname matching, which does not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a result,
> it fails because it cannot find "./libfoo.so".
>
> The error message matches the error of the second dlopen(), not the first's.
>
> Do not try to look for a different library ("./"-prefixed) than the one
> provided in argument. Let the dynamic library management handle it, just
> provide an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> index 3ded563..d2753ec 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> @@ -1049,12 +1049,6 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
> TAILQ_FOREACH(solib, &solib_list, next) {
> RTE_LOG(INFO, EAL, "open shared lib %s\n", solib->name);
> solib->lib_handle = dlopen(solib->name, RTLD_NOW);
> - if ((solib->lib_handle == NULL) && (solib->name[0] != '/')) {
> - /* relative path: try again with "./" prefix */
> - char sopath[PATH_MAX];
> - snprintf(sopath, sizeof(sopath), "./%s", solib->name);
> - solib->lib_handle = dlopen(sopath, RTLD_NOW);
> - }
> if (solib->lib_handle == NULL)
> RTE_LOG(WARNING, EAL, "%s\n", dlerror());
> }
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
