develooper Front page | perl.perl6.internals | Postings from September 2005

Re: loadlib and libraries with '.' in the name

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Amos Robinson
Date:
September 22, 2005 22:58
Subject:
Re: loadlib and libraries with '.' in the name
Message ID:
op.sxjkaduqdzsriz@localhost.localdomain
Could we try loading it without any changes, and if that doesn't work,
strip the last .?

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:51:31 +1000, Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1@neces.com>
wrote:

>
> i was playing around with NCI stuff tonight and ran across a problem in  
> loadlib. the following code does not work:
>
>      .local pmc lib_gtk
>      lib_gtk = loadlib "libgtk-x11-2.0"
>
> the problem is the '.' in the library name. code was added to src/ 
> dynext.c in 8209 that gets the lib_name, the name of the library without  
> any prefix or leading path information. this fix breaks the ability to  
> load libraries with .'s. the offending code is:
>
>      ext_start = strrchr(*lib_name, '.');
>      if (ext_start)
>          *ext_start = '\0';
>
> which finds the last '.' in the library name and sets it to the null  
> char if one is found, thus turning libgtk-x11-2.0 in to libgtk-x11-2  
> which can't be found. this results in an unable to load libgtk-x11-2.0  
> with an "unknown reason" message.
>
> if i set ext_start to NULL just before the test and null char set and  
> the library loads fine.
>
> i'm not really sure what the solution here would be. you'd have to know  
> what all of the possible extension types were and look to remove them if  
> found otherwise you have no idea what is and isn't just part of a  
> library name. in what situation would you be passing in a full path and  
> file with extension to loadlib? is that a requirement to be able to? it  
> sound unnecessary to me. i'm willing to implement and test any  
> ideas/suggestions people have.
>
> i was planning on playing around with gtk+ bindings and parrot and went  
> about looking around for the work that had already been done and didn't  
> turn anything up. if anyone knows where i can find it or who i should  
> talk to i would appreciate that info as well.
>
> -rm



-- 
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About