[Chicken-users] Solaris dlopen() problem resolved.

[tonyg]

Hi all.

The problem I was observing was almost certainly a bug in ld.so -
running with LD_DEBUG=all LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT=foo gave me enough info to
pinpoint the location of the problem (thanks to Neil Pearce).

Patching Solaris fixes the problem. Solaris 7 needs patch 106950-18 (I
had 106950-07, which exhibited the problem, already
installed). Solaris 8 has an equivalent patch, 109147-16.

You can find out if you have these patches installed by running:

        # showrev -p | grep 106950      # solaris 7
        # showrev -p | grep 109147      # solaris 8

Sven - do you happen to have these patches already installed?

Felix - perhaps a note mentioning these patches in the Chicken
documentation or something?

Now chicken runs flawlessly on Sparc for me too :-)

Regards,
  Tony
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