[Buildroot] Shared objects, load order?

[Joachim Pihl]

I only have one hurdle left before the upgrade from 0.10.0 to 2009.11 is  
in place. It may be related to .so's referring other .so's.

In the beginning, I thought that _none_ of our C++ applications would run  
on the updated platform, they would all die with a segmentation fault  
before reaching main(). Then I discovered something interesting, namely  
that _one_ application actually runs. All the apps are production code,  
they run on the same hardware with the old buildroot system, so the fact  
that they do not all behave the same is intriguing. I think it may be  
caused by some .so referring something in another .so that has not been  
loaded yet. ldd shows that the working app and one of the crashing ones  
reference (in essence) the same .so's, but lists them in different order.

Works:

# ldd /multicon/gyda
	libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x4000e000)
	libgd.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 (0x4012b000)
	libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x4016b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40191000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x401ab000)
	libboost_thread-mt.so => /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so (0x401c4000)
	libspread.so.2 => /usr/lib/libspread.so.2 (0x401d8000)
	libcrypt.so.0 => /lib/libcrypt.so.0 (0x4023f000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x4025c000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x402c5000)
	libm.so.0 => /lib/libm.so.0 (0x40376000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40390000)
	libc.so.0 => /lib/libc.so.0 (0x403a3000)
	libdl.so.0 => /lib/libdl.so.0 (0x40401000)
	librt.so.0 => /lib/librt.so.0 (0x4040c000)
	libnsl.so.0 => /lib/libnsl.so.0 (0x40415000)
	ld-uClibc.so.0 => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 (0x40000000)


Crashes:

# ldd /multicon/phy
	libboost_thread-mt.so => /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so (0x4000e000)
	libspread.so.2 => /usr/lib/libspread.so.2 (0x40022000)
	libcrypt.so.0 => /lib/libcrypt.so.0 (0x40089000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x400a6000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x4010f000)
	libm.so.0 => /lib/libm.so.0 (0x401c0000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x401da000)
	libc.so.0 => /lib/libc.so.0 (0x401ed000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4024b000)
	librt.so.0 => /lib/librt.so.0 (0x40265000)
	libnsl.so.0 => /lib/libnsl.so.0 (0x4026e000)
	libdl.so.0 => /lib/libdl.so.0 (0x40277000)
	ld-uClibc.so.0 => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 (0x40000000)


Any changes in uclibc regarding this over the last two years? I have seen  
that linkers are sometimes fuzzy about the ordering of static libraries, I  
have never had a problem with shared ones.


-- 
Joachim Pihl
Senior R&D Engineer
Nevion Europe

Tel: +47 33 48 94 66
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