[gentoo-dev] Re: libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-12 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Or we could just stop randomly moving libs across the system and > breaking things then hackmeating things back to a "working" state with > gen_ld_script. > > The whole reason for having gen_ld_script is because people wanted > dynamic libs i

[gentoo-dev] Re: libtool lt_dlopenext vs. gen_ld_script: breakages at runtime

2014-01-08 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 04:09:12AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Summary: > > gen_ld_script is removing a vital unversioned symlink from some packages, and > this breaks libtool lt_dlopenext consumers at runtime. > lt_dlopenext is given the basename of a library to find. In this case,