Re: dynamic-link and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Carl R. Witty]

Bill Gribble <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm sure rlb will pipe up on this, since we have been dealing with this
> type of problem lots lately :(  My impression (which may be wrong) is
> that you're probably not having the problem you think you're having.
> 
> The "File not found" error does NOT necessarily mean that the file was
> not found.  What it means is that lt_dlopen was not able to find a file
> that it could successfully open.  This means either that there's no
> library named whatever you specified, OR all libraries with matching
> names could not be dlopen'ed.  Libraries may be un-dlopenable if they
> have unresolved external symbols. 

That seems like a particularly poor situation.  At the very least, the
error message should be changed to something like "File not found or
library not loadable"; preferably, the error message could say either
"File not found" or "library not loadable (undefined symbol Foo)".

Carl Witty