Re: [Monetdb-developers] why open() before dlopen()?

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:

in general dlopen is a very smart function,

The issue isn't with dlopen(). It's with MSP_locate_file() in mal_linker.c. MSP_locate_file() throws a runtime error if open() fails, and the call to open() assumes a .so with no version suffix. This logic assumes a certain setting of the libtool variable library_names_spec, which can vary by platform. In fact, there's already an #ifdef _AIX in that function that ignores the open() error, so this has come up before for another platform. Thanks, m