I don't know how to use a debugger on AIX, but I added printf inside our embedded libltdl and found the following.
It looks at the ".la", parses it, finds the ".so" name, tries to dlopen it, and fails since this file is not installed. There's no way this code can work currently since it really expects a ".so" while only the ".a" and ".la" are installed. Either I am missing a libtool flag when building/installing my plugin (a flag that would cause the ".so" to be installed). Or something broke between the way libtool and AIX build plugins. Brice Le 29/08/2012 16:06, Robert Boehne a écrit : > Step into the debugger and see what filename it's trying to use. What > I can tell you, is that 7 years ago all this worked on AIX 4.3, Linux, > HPUX, OSF/1, IRIX, Solaris and Windows (at my previous employer). We > made C++ modules that were lt_dlopen'd at runtime. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr > <mailto:brice.gog...@inria.fr>> wrote: > > Le 29/08/2012 14:50, Robert Boehne a écrit : >> Are you passing the name of the libtool "la" file to lt_dlopen? > > I tried that (among others) but it fails with "file not found". > Is this the recommended strategy? I as initially using lt_dopenext > on the libtool file without any extension. > > >> Putting a shared object in an archive is the AIX way of building >> shared libs. >> AIX also supports system V compatibility libraries that look more >> like >> what you're used to on Linux & Solaris. >> If you prefer to build these more familiar sorts, you can put >> -Wl,-brtl in LDFLAGS >> which will cause Libtool to change the way it links, and create >> libFoo.so SysV-style libraries. > > If dlopen is supposed to work on AIX with .la files pointing to .a > files containing .so, that'd be fine. But it keeps failing here :/ > > Brice > > > >> HTH, >> >> Robert >> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Brice Goglin >> <brice.gog...@inria.fr <mailto:brice.gog...@inria.fr>> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I cannot get ltdl to load plugins on AIX 6.1. I am compiling >> plugins >> with -module -avoid-version. libtool generates a ".so" but >> then embeds >> it inside a ".a" and it looks like it really wants me to use >> this ".a" >> since the ".so" doesn't even get installed. >> >> When lt_dlopen tries to open the plugins (tried dlopen with >> an extension >> and dlopenext without extension), it fails saying "file not >> found". The >> raw dlopen doesn't want to load the .a file because of a "bad >> magic number". >> >> dlopen succeeds if I use "foo.a(foo.so)" as a file name >> instead of >> "foo.a", and if I add RTLD_MEMBER to the flags. But I don't >> see any >> reference to RTLD_MEMBER in libltdl, so I assume I am not >> building the >> plugins correctly. >> >> What should I do to properly build my plugin? I assume I need >> to .la to >> point to a .so instead of a .a but I can't find how do that. >> FWIW, >> things work fine on Linux and Solaris, at least. >> >> Here's the (dummy) plugin compile lines: >> >> source='topology-fake.c' >> object='core_fake_la-topology-fake.lo' libtool=yes \ >> DEPDIR=.deps depmode=xlc /bin/sh ../.././config/depcomp \ >> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc >> -qlanglvl=extc89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../src >> -I../include/private/autogen -I../include/hwloc/autogen >> -I/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/include >> -I/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/include -DHWLOC_INSIDE_LIBHWLOC >> >> -DHWLOC_PLUGINS_DIR=\"/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/install/lib/hwloc\" >> -I../../src/libltdl -DHWLOC_BUILD_PLUGIN -g -c -o >> core_fake_la-topology-fake.lo `test -f 'topology-fake.c' || >> echo '../../src/'`topology-fake.c >> libtool: compile: cc -qlanglvl=extc89 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. >> -I../../src -I../include/private/autogen >> -I../include/hwloc/autogen >> -I/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/include >> -I/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/include -DHWLOC_INSIDE_LIBHWLOC >> >> -DHWLOC_PLUGINS_DIR=\"/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/install/lib/hwloc\" >> -I../../src/libltdl -DHWLOC_BUILD_PLUGIN -g -c >> ../../src/topology-fake.c >> -Wp,-qmakedep=gcc,-MF.deps/core_fake_la-topology-fake.TPlo >> -DPIC -o .libs/core_fake_la-topology-fake.o >> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc >> -qlanglvl=extc89 -g -module -avoid-version -o core_fake.la >> <http://core_fake.la> -rpath >> /pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/install/lib/hwloc >> core_fake_la-topology-fake.lo -lpthread >> libtool: link: /usr/bin/nm -B -BCpg >> .libs/core_fake_la-topology-fake.o | awk '{ if ((($ 2 == >> "T") || ($ 2 == "D") || ($ 2 == "B")) && (substr($ 3,1,1) != >> ".")) { print $ 3 } }' | sort -u > .libs/core_fake.exp >> libtool: link: cc -qlanglvl=extc89 -Wl,-bM:SRE -o >> .libs/core_fake.so .libs/core_fake_la-topology-fake.o >> -lpthread -lc -Wl,-bnoentry -qlanglvl=extc89 >> -Wl,-bE:.libs/core_fake.exp -Wl,-berok >> libtool: link: ar cru .libs/core_fake.a .libs/core_fake.so >> libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "core_fake.la >> <http://core_fake.la>" && ln -s "../core_fake.la >> <http://core_fake.la>" "core_fake.la <http://core_fake.la>" ) >> >> >> And the generated .la that lt_dlopen does not want to load: >> >> cat src/core_fake.la <http://core_fake.la> >> # core_fake.la <http://core_fake.la> - a libtool library file >> # Generated by libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 Debian-2.4.2-1.1 >> # >> # Please DO NOT delete this file! >> # It is necessary for linking the library. >> >> # The name that we can dlopen(3). >> dlname='core_fake.so' >> >> # Names of this library. >> library_names='core_fake.a core_fake.a' >> >> # The name of the static archive. >> old_library='' >> >> # Linker flags that can not go in dependency_libs. >> inherited_linker_flags='' >> >> # Libraries that this one depends upon. >> dependency_libs=' -lpthread' >> >> # Names of additional weak libraries provided by this library >> weak_library_names='' >> >> # Version information for core_fake. >> current=0 >> age=0 >> revision=0 >> >> # Is this an already installed library? >> installed=no >> >> # Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules? >> shouldnotlink=yes >> >> # Files to dlopen/dlpreopen >> dlopen='' >> dlpreopen='' >> >> # Directory that this library needs to be installed in: >> libdir='/pf/k/k203045/hwloc-1.6a1-1/build/install/lib/hwloc' >> >> >> Thank you >> Brice >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool >> >> > >
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