Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 5/8] module: implement module loading

[Richard Henderson]

On 09/16/2013 06:29 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
>> Link spice-qemu.char.so against spice-core.so.  The DT_NEEDED entry will be
>> recorded, and ld.so will do the right thing.
>>
>> Anything else sounds way too much like Not Invented Here.
>>
> How to do the symbol checking as above if spice-core.so is automatically 
> loaded
> by ld.so?

You're checking the version stamp in spice-char.so.  I'd think that's good
enough.  No need to transitively check.

> And we will need to add $moddir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and lose the restriction of
> modules directory too.

Or add DT_RUN_PATH to the main executable, or even add DT_RUN_PATH to the
module itself.  In particular, link the module with

  -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN'

and dependencies for the module will automatically be looked for in the
directory in which the module is found.  Which is almost certiainly the only
thing that we want -- all modules in the same directory.


r~