To whom it may concern,


  Thanks for taking the time to look at this issue!  I'm Tracy
  Vandeventer and I am trying to port an application from HPUX to
  Linux (YEA!!).  This application contains over 10 executables and 
  ~140 shared libraries with a total of ~1.4 million lines of code.

  My problem is that I have a shared library that has some 
  unresolved symbols.  I want to be able to load this library
  and not have it fail because of unresolved symbols. ( at some
  point in the future the symbols will be resolved, but.. I'm not
  done with all the porting...)

  The problem is that the dlopen library call has a parameter flags
  with a possible value being RTLD_LAZY.  When I uses this flag the
  dlopen call still fails with unresolved symbols, when it should 
  just load the library and resolve what it can and then return.

  The following code snippet demostrates the problem...
  When you execute the main executable - a message is printed that
  shows the failed dlopen call.  This call should NOT fail...

  These files are located in the shar at the end of this message:

  readme - this file

  main.c - the main program that loads the library and then
		   makes a call into the library - note that the unresolved
		   symbol is not needed for the call...
  lib1.c - the library code with an unresolved symbol
  m      - a quick script that builds the library, the 
		   executable, and then executes the program
  lib1.so- the library binary
  main   - the executable binary



  >g++ -v
  Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs
  gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)

    **** note the specs file is located below....

  >ld --version
  GNU ld 2.9.5
  Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
  the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
    Supported emulations:
     elf_i386
     i386linux



  Again thanks for all your help ...

  tracy@cos.agilent.com
  

    ______________________________________________________________________

    Tracy Vandeventer            e-mail:  tracy_vandeventer@agilent.com
    Agilent Technologies         USmail:  1900 Garden of the Gods Road
    R&D Digital Design PGU                PO Box 2197
    Phone : (719) 590-2640                Colorado Springs, CO  80901-2197
    ______________________________________________________________________


  > cat /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs
  *asm:
  %{v:-V} %{Qy:} %{!Qn:-Qy} %{n} %{T} %{Ym,*} %{Yd,*} %{Wa,*:%*}

  *asm_final:
  %|

  *cpp:
  %(cpp_cpu) %{fPIC:-D__PIC__ -D__pic__} %{fpic:-D__PIC__ -D__pic__} %{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} %{pthread:-D_REENTRANT}
  
  *cc1:
  %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p}

  *cc1plus:


  *endfile:
  %{!shared:crtend.o%s} %{shared:crtendS.o%s} crtn.o%s

  *link:
  -m elf_i386 %{shared:-shared}   %{!shared:     %{!ibcs:       %{!static: 	%{rdynamic:-export-dynamic} 	%{!dynamic-linker:-dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2}} 	%{static:-static}}}
  
  *lib:
  %{shared: -lc}    %{!shared: %{mieee-fp:-lieee} %{pthread:-lpthread} 	%{profile:-lc_p} %{!profile: -lc}}
  
  *libgcc:
  -lgcc

  *startfile:
  %{!shared:      %{pg:gcrt1.o%s} %{!pg:%{p:gcrt1.o%s} 		       %{!p:%{profile:gcrt1.o%s} 			 %{!profile:crt1.o%s}}}}    crti.o%s %{!shared:crtbegin.o%s} %{shared:crtbeginS.o%s}
  
  *switches_need_spaces:
  
  
  *signed_char:
  %{funsigned-char:-D__CHAR_UNSIGNED__}
  
  *predefines:
  -D__ELF__ -Dunix -D__i386__ -Dlinux -Asystem(posix)
  
  *cross_compile:
  0
  
  *version:
  2.95.2
  
  *multilib:
  . ;
  
  *multilib_defaults:


  *multilib_extra:


  *multilib_matches:


  *linker:
  collect2

  *cpp_486:
  %{!ansi:-Di486} -D__i486 -D__i486__
  
  *cpp_586:
  %{!ansi:-Di586 -Dpentium} 	-D__i586 -D__i586__ -D__pentium -D__pentium__
  
  *cpp_k6:
  %{!ansi:-Di586 -Dk6} 	-D__i586 -D__i586__ -D__k6 -D__k6__
  
  *cpp_686:
  %{!ansi:-Di686 -Dpentiumpro} 	-D__i686 -D__i686__ -D__pentiumpro -D__pentiumpro__
  
  *cpp_cpu_default:
  
  
  *cpp_cpu:
  -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) %{!ansi:-Di386} -D__i386 -D__i386__ %{mcpu=i486:%(cpp_486)} %{m486:%(cpp_486)} %{mpentium:%(cpp_586)} %{mcpu=pentium:%(cpp_586)} %{mpentiumpro:%(cpp_686)} %{mcpu=pentiumpro:%(cpp_686)} %{mcpu=k6:%(cpp_k6)} %{!mcpu*:%{!m486:%{!mpentium*:%(cpp_cpu_default)}}}
  
  *cc1_cpu:
  %{!mcpu*: %{m386:-mcpu=i386 -march=i386} %{m486:-mcpu=i486 -march=i486} %{mpentium:-mcpu=pentium} %{mpentiumpro:-mcpu=pentiumpro}}

  *link_command:
  %{!fsyntax-only:  %{!c:%{!M:%{!MM:%{!E:%{!S:%(linker) %l %X %{o*} %{A} %{d} %{e*} %{m} %{N} %{n} 			%{r} %{s} %{t} %{u*} %{x} %{z} %{Z}			%{!A:%{!nostdlib:%{!nostartfiles:%S}}}			%{static:} %{L*} %D %o			%{!nostdlib:%{!nodefaultlibs:%G %L %G}}			%{!A:%{!nostdlib:%{!nostartfiles:%E}}}			%{T*}			
   }}}}}}


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