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On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:55:06PM +0100, Jasper Wallace wrote:
>
>  > I'm trying to get the wirless plugin[1] for gkrellm[2] to work under
>  > NetBSD 1.5.2.
>  >
>  > After digging around with gdb the call to dlopen() on the plugin fails with
>  > (as reported dy dlerror()):
>  >
>  > Error: /usr/home/jasper/.gkrellm/plugins/wireless.so: Undefined PLT symbol
>  > "gkrellm_draw_decal_text" (reloc type = 7, symnum = 31)
>  >
>  > gkrellm_draw_decal_text is a function in gkrellm (and gkrellm is NOT
>  > striped).
>
> gkrellm needs to be linked with the -E (--export-dyanmic) option.  That
> should fix your problem.

yey! that did it. thanks.

> Any program which opens a shared object that needs to call back into
> the parent needs this option.  I guess maybe it's the default on Linux,
> or something, because lots of programs fail to include it in their
> Makefiles.

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