Re: ld, bad logic of dynamic linker search? (fwd)

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:07:53PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Ivan Popov <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> You mean you want ld to automatically search for libraries, etc., in
> >> the same directory as the dynamic linker?  Where would you place that
> >
> > Hmm? I am not talking about library searches here. I want ld to look for
> > the *dynamic linker* where I tell it to.
> 
> ld has no problem finding the dynamic linker.  But there is also a
> reference to ld-linux.so.2 (in libc.so.6, I think, or perhaps in
> ld-linux.so.2 itself) which causes ld-linux.so.2 to be looked for in
> the run-time library search path.  This is glibc's doing, not ld's.
> 
> If you show us the commands you are running and the error messages you
> get, maybe we can help.

Ivan, by the way, it sounds like your problem is the same as the issue
addressed by "-rpath-link".  Give it a try.  It's not an accident that
glibc uses this when building against an uninstalled glibc.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer