Re: [Plplot-devel] New problems

[Joao C. <jca...@in...>]

On Friday 12 October 2001 17:08, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:
| Jo=E3o Cardoso writes:
=2E..

| Here's what you haven't yet grasped.
|
| When running a /Java/ program, the PLplot binding is accomplished by
| asking the JVM to "load" libplplot.  Evidently it does this by dlopen,
| but not using RTLD_GLOBAL.  Then, when libplplot dlopen's
| driver/xyz.drv, the driver doesn't have access to libplpot's symbols
| because libplplot itself wasn't loaded with RTLD_GLOBAL.

Yes, I wasn't aware of that.

| To live with it, we need to either
|
| 1) link drivers against libplplot, or
| 2) break the symbol resolution requirement.
|
| I'll /probably/ check in 1) soon.

OK.

|  I will /possibly/ do 2) sooner than
| sometime in the indefinite future.  How's that for a vague statement
| of my intentions?  :-).

Fine, I got it. :)

Joao