Re: dlopen on Solaris compared with IRIX/Tru64

[Bjoern Fischer]

> BTW, I posted the same message to comp.unix.solaris and it turns out
> there is a solution. In my code below, I dlopen libz.so and then
> libpng.so. This fails. libpng.so has a hard-coded dependency on
> libz.so.2. So, if I dlopen libz.so.2 and then libpng.so, everything
> works! Now, I don't think libtool embeds enough information in the
> *.la files to figure this out.

This works, but it is a hack. The proper solution is to fix libpng.so.
Early libtool versions have no or bad support for hardcoding RPATHs
into shared objects.

  Bjoern

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