Re: Why does solib_open do what it does?

Elena Zannoni
2003-06-17T19:37:50Z

Kris Warkentin writes:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:01:25PM -0400, Kris Warkentin wrote:
> > > I'm looking at solib.c:solib_open() and as I go down the list:
> > >
> > > Search order:
> > > 1 * If path is absolute, look in SOLIB_ABSOLUTE_PREFIX.
> > > 2 * If path is absolute or relative, look for it literally
> (unmodified).
> > > 3 * Look in SOLIB_SEARCH_PATH.
> > > 4 * If available, use target defined search function.
> > > 5 * Look in inferior's $PATH.
> > > 6 * Look in inferior's $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > >
> > > I'm puzzled. Why are we testing for the existence of solib_search_path
> > > before checking 5 and 6?
> >
> > You'll have to get Kevin's opinion, but it looks like a paste-o to me.
>
> That's what I was thinking too. A customer reported that when they don't
> set solib-search-path, all of a sudden gdb isn't finding solibs that used to
> be found in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> You think it's okay for me to fix it?
>
> cheers,
>
> Kris
>

can you do some cvs annotate/diffs ? maybe you'll see when that was
introduced, and find a changelog that explains things.

elena