On Monday 09 February 2004 08:05, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> >>   * Build a -current ld.so_elf and install it on your 1.6 system.
> >>   * Also install /usr/include/dlfcn.h
> >
> > A word of warning to anyone who tries this... I would expect anything 
> > that
> > uses RTLD_SELF to fail hopelessly. Changes are required to libc for 
> > this to
> > work.
> 
>    How frequent are things that use RTLD_SELF? As an unqualified
> datapoint, the (1.6) machine now running a -current ld_elf.so is
> still alive, but then, it's not doing much.

That I couldn't tell you. What I do know is that pth uses RTLD_SELF if it 
discovers it in the header. This is where I discovered the bug and why I 
eventually fixed it.

Nick