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Re: Binary apps linked against libdl
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:37:13 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org>
> Reply-To: Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org>
>
> On 22 Apr 1999, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> > >>>>> Christopher Seawood writes:
> >
> > >> > sh: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/glibc2.0/lib/libc.so.6:
> > >> > undefined symbol: _dl_global_scope_end
> >
> > You're mixing /lib/ld-linux.so.2 which is hardcoded into every binary
> > with another libdl.so.2 which isn't hardcoded:
>
> Doh! So I am. :-< I'm still confused as to why running the application
> explicitly using the glibc2.0 ld-linux.so.2 does not work. From what
> you've said and what I pasted before, it appears as though it's looking
> for the 2.0.7 libdl but is complaining that the libdl it gets (apparently,
> the glibc 2.1.1 one) is missing _dl_global_scope_end.
>
> If db2inst execs /bin/sh (which it expects to be ksh), will ksh also use
> the glibc 2.0.7 ld-linux.so.2 or does the environment get reset on the
> (presumed) execve() or system()?
It'll use /lib/ld-linux.so.2, whatever that is. The environment,
however, doesn't get reset, so it'll still LD_PRELOAD whatever you
asked it to originally. I expect this will account for some of your
trouble.
--
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>