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What exactly does --enable-new-dtags do?
- From: Mike Hearn <mike at navi dot cx>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:49:29 +0100
- Subject: What exactly does --enable-new-dtags do?
Hi,
I would like to enable usage of DT_RUNPATH in my binaries, however the
only way to get this is with the --enable-new-dtags switch, the
exact effects of which are undocumented.
I don't mind DT_RUNPATH because support for this was added to glibc in
1999, which is old enough that I think most of my users have upgraded by
now. But I have no idea what else it does, so I have no idea how recent a
system will be required by using this switch.
It seems to me that a switch with such vague semantics is a bit dangerous.
Does anybody have a list of exactly what dyntags it enables? If not I'll
rummage about in the code and try to produce one.
thanks -mike