Re: ld fails when ld.so is an executable

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 02:17:47PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:46:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> >  - Glibc's ld.so works as shared object, but also as executable (needed
> >    for some extra features like ldd).
> >  - kernel of FreeBSD will refuse to exec() ld.so unless it was linked as an
> >    executable.
> 
> Perhaps you could write a little wrapper executable to accomplish the
> same thing as running ld.so directly.  Or keep two copies of ld.so
> around, one an ET_DYN for the linker, one munged to ET_EXEC for ldd.
> 
> I would also accept a clean patch to implement an elf_backend_object_p
> for freebsd to twiddle bfd->flags from EXEC_P to DYNAMIC for the special
> case of ld.so.  That's about all you'd need to do to have the linker
> work as you wish.

I'll try to do that.

Thanks

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Robert Millan

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