Re: [PATCH] ltdl: set libltdl_cv_need_uscore to yes on OS/2

[KO Myung-Hun]

Hi/2.

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> On 27 Nov 2014, at 02:47, KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi/2.
>>
>> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the report and the patch!
>>>
>>>> On Nov 22, 2014, at 4:08 AM, KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On OS/2, dlopen() does not support a program. So libltdl_cv_need_uscore
>>>> is set to unknown, but dlsym() requires an underscore prefix. So set
>>>> libltdl_cv_need_uscore to yes on OS/2 if lt_cv_sys_symbol_underscore is
>>>> yes and libltdl_cv_need_uscore is unknown.
>>>
>>> Actually, I think the real problem here is that LT_FUNC_DLSYM_USCORE is
>>> making the bad assumption that dlsym() only requires a leading symbol
>>> name underscore on machines where self dlopening works.
>>>
>>> Better than your suggested patch, we should really be checking whether
>>> dlsym of ordinary loadable module symbol names requires a leading 
>>> underscore.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>>> I pushed the core of a new macro that does exactly that to M4 master just
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Would you let me know whether this works correctly on OS2 for you please?
>>
>> Of course. Unfortunately, however, it does not work. dlopen() in
>> configure fails due to 'file not found'.
> 
> Thanks for checking.  Can you tell me why it fails (module is not compiled 
> correctly;
> path argument to dlopen() is wrong), and maybe suggest what would fix it, 
> please?
> 

I've look into this problem. Module is not built. To build it, some
additional variables are required. They are soname, libname,
output_objdir. And archive_cmds on OS/2 consists of multi lines
separated by ~. So when using it, quotation is needed. And to eval it
the function such as func_execute_cmds is needed. In addition, make sure
.libs exist before building a module.

Finally, please remember that OS/2 does not support DLLs whose base name
is longer than 8 characters.

Thanks.

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