On Nov 2 20:05, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/2/2009 9:48 AM: > > Weird question, right? > > > > Here's the problem. > > > > Assume you have a file "foo.so" on Linux. If you call > > > > dlopen ("./foo.so", RTLD_LAZY); > > > > it succeeds, but > > > > dlopen ("./foo", RTLD_LAZY); > > > > fails because the dlopen function never adds any suffixes like .so > > automatically. > > And POSIX says "If file contains a <slash> character, the file argument is > used as the pathname for the file. Otherwise, file is used in an > implementation-defined manner to yield a pathname." So I think we are > better off NOT adding an implicit .dll. > > > While we tend to change the implementation to be more Linux-like, > > there could be some tools out there which erroneously depend on the > > Windows-like behaviour of Cygwin's dlopen(). > > My only worry is whether libtool depends on this behavior. But a quick > look at the source code (although not a definitive one) shows that libtool > is already adding a trailing dot on its own, in order to bypass window's > automatic .dll appending. So if anything, I'm guessing that not adding an > implicit suffix is actually what libtool would prefer.
Maybe Chuck can make this definitive? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple