RE: .so version numbers for dlopen'd objects

At Tue, 22 May 2018 18:16:24 -0700 "Paul B. Henson" henson@acm.org wrote:

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From: Robert Heller Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 5:37 PM

You can suppress the version numbers with the "-avoid-version" LDFLAGS option

Cool, thanks for the pointer. Then the question is whether this is acceptable for upstream to deploy in general, or if I should just tweak the OpenBSD port to do so? Quanah or Howard :)?

It is the "standard" thing to do for a "shared module" (as opposed to a "shared library"). "Shared module" == something to be only ever opened with dlopen, while "shared library" is something a program is linked against (eg with ld, and then loaded when a process is launched and "linked" with the program loader (ld-so, et. al.).

Thanks.