Re: error with rpm 4.0.3 libs

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:06:18PM -0200, root wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use the APIs from the rpmlib, with dlopen call.
> my problem is that in the 4.0.3 release there is a cross reference
> between librpm.so and
> librpmdb.so (librpm.so uses an symbol called chroot_prefix that is
> defined in librpmdb.so and librpmdb.so
> uses the symbol _noDirTokens defined in librpm.so). Because of that
> dlopen cant load these libs, even when using  the RTLD_LAZY option.

Nasty loops are known, actually fixed in rpm-4.1, but that code
ain't even close to being cooked yet.

Meanwhile you're *insane* to attempt anything sophisticated with
rpm shared libraries. Don't even think about it, roll your own
modules if you must. Better yet, figger a way to statically
link.

HTH

73 de Jeff

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