[speex-dev] Re: does installed lib support _int()s ?

[Segher Boessenkool]

>>> I wonder if there's a way to "weak-link" against libraries on
>>> Linux/GNU-ld-so?  The idea is that a symbol lookup/relocation isn't
>>> performed until the call is actually MADE, rather than merely
>>> referenced.
>>
>> That's the default behaviour.
>
> No it's not.  The linker/loader (ld.so) expects all of the referenced
> symbols to exist in SOME library no matter if they're actually called 
> or not
> by the main executable (ELF).  It goes through all of the external 
> symbols
> not present in the executable, and tries to find them in the library 
> search
> paths.  If it can't find ALL of them, the linker-loader fails to run 
> the
> program.

This is so completely wrong.  For starters, ld.so is not the loader
(ld is the loader; ld.so is the dynamic loader.  That's a *huge*
difference).

ld.so resolves symbols lazily, by default.

ld requires all external references to be resolved, when creating
an executable (undefined references are fine when creating a
shared library).

ld.so doesn't go looking for a shared library with the symbols it
needs (that would be...  confusing and dangerous.  lots of fun!);
instead, it knows which libraries to use (that info is stored
in the executable, by ld).

> To give one stupid example:

Stupid indeed -- three programming errors in a "hello world"...

<p>Segher

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