[java] RFC/RFA: libgcj_bc.so.1

[Bryce McKinlay]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:04:05PM -0400, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>   
>> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>     
>>> On the other side, if
>>> /usr/lib*/libgcj_bc.so.1 is a symlink to
>>> libgcj_bc.so.1.0.0 and /usr/lib*/libgcj_bc.so.1.0.0 is a dummy shared
>>> library (
>>> gcc -shared -O2 -fpic -xc /dev/null -Wl,-soname,libgcj_bc.so.1 -o 
>>> libgcj_bc.so.1.0.0 -lgcj
>>> ), then both libgcj.so.37 and libgcj_bc.so.1 will be in ld.so.conf.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Well, we already tried this approach. It doesn't work because if 
>> libgcj_bc.so.1 is linked to libgcj.so.37, then the linker adds a 
>> DT_NEEDED for libgcj.so.37 to any binaries that are linked with 
>> -lgcj_bc. The --no-add-needed linker option is supposed to stop this 
>> from happening, but it doesn't work.
>>     
>
> Even when libgcj_bc.so (i.e. the static link time dummy lib) doesn't
> have DT_NEEDED on libgcj.so.* at all?
>   

How does libgcj.so.37 get loaded at runtime, then?

Bryce