Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: do not try to load library with a local pathname

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

> > When loading a library "libfoo.so" (depending on "libbar.so", located in
> > an
> > entirely different folder), with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libfoo.so", it
> > 
> > returns an error:
> >  EAL: ./libfoo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> >  directory
> > 
> > If the first dlopen() fails (here, because it can't find all
> > dependencies),
> > the code requires for a second dlopen() that looks for "./libfoo.so". It
> > turns on pathname matching, which does not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a
> > result, it fails because it cannot find "./libfoo.so".
> > 
> > The error message matches the error of the second dlopen(), not the
> > first's.
> > 
> > Do not try to look for a different library ("./"-prefixed) than the one
> > provided in argument. Let the dynamic library management handle it, just
> > provide an appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

Applied for version 1.6.0r2.

Thanks, it's a good usability improvement (simpler is better :)
-- 
Thomas