Re: Linking two shared object libs with same symbols, Solaris 2.6

cesars_at_nortelnetworks.com
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 07:46:16 -0700

Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@Sun.COM> wrote in message news:<40c48a4e$0$36861$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> cesars@nortelnetworks.com (cesars@nortelnetworks.com) writes:
>
> >I have an application running on Solaris 2.6 that is linking with two
> >shared object libs ( libv2.so and libv4.so ). These two libs are
> >basically two wrapper classes that make API calls to two other .so
> >libs ( libver2.so and libver4.so ), the API functions are the
> >same on both libver2.so and libver4.so, that's the reason I created
> >the wrapper classes. The libv2.so links with libver2.so and libv4.so
> >links with libver4.so without any problems.
>
> >My app compiles and links without any problems either, but when I run it,
> >only one set of the API calls work, either the one on libver2.so or
> >libver4.so, but not both at the same time.
>
> >I have narrowed the problem to the order of the libraries at linking
> >time. If I do "..... -lv2 -lv4 ......" only the API calls to liver2.so work
> >but not the ones to libver4.so. If I reverse the order of the libraries
> >"..... -lv4 -lv2 ....." the opposite happens and only API calls in the
> >libver4.so work.
>
> >How do I make the executable to actually have both of them at the same
> >time?
>
> Try linking the wrapper libraries with -Bdirect.
>
> Casper

I linked with -direct on both wrapper libraries and it gave me
the same results.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Cesar.