Re: the trouble with $ORIGIN

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Monday, October 18, 2010 20:21:36 com.redhat.glibc@pooryorick.com wrote:

please do not hijack threads.  start your own instead of picking a random e-
mail and hitting "reply".

> For the innovation of $ORIGIN to succeed, it needs to be more compatible
> with the GNU toolchain.  On the binutils list, Dave Korn pondered
> providing some altenate token
> (http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-05/msg00258.html).

this is a linker issue.  nothing is stopping the linker from providing a 
special "//ORIGIN//" that is turned into "$ORIGIN".  the C library ldso has no 
need to be concerned with this.

"$ORIGIN" is part of the ELF spec already, so if you want the ldso to support 
something different, you really need to start a thread on the relevant ELF 
spec lists.
-mike

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