"John A. Maier" <johnam@mail.kemper.org> writes:

> I've been working very close with the licq dev guys to get it to work under
> NetBSD.
> 
> I got it compiling great (even fixed stuff for the FreeBSD guys!) but I've hit
> the top of my C skills.  Licq does some plugin stuff that both Net and Free
> BSDs puke on.
> 
> It seems that out dynamic linking is different from that of Linux and some
> others.  licq has a gui 'plugin' component and a daemon.  The daemon
> doesn a dynamic load of this plugin.


NetBSD (and FreeBSD) a.out systems have "_" prepended to all their
symbols. Find the call to dlsym() and have it check for "_sym" if
"sym" fails (or more correctly see if you are compiling a.out first, and
#ifdef the code accordingly).

I (evilly) ended up just hacking my rtld.c:dlsym() to do this for me,
as I became so sick of the incompatabilities it produced.

-- 
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   notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be
   type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of
   soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].