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dlopen() fails after Debian trixie libc transition: "Cannot enable executable stack"
I've been running the same 32-bit, 3rd-party, closed-source binary since 2018. This week on debian trixie/testing servers (possible due to a libc6 transition?) the program began to crash on startup. ...
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cc/gcc -R flag to linker
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Weak symbol
In the link the following linker option is mentioned:
cc main.o -L`pwd` -Wl,-R`pwd` -lpowerslow -o main2
The purpose of all of the above flags have been documented in the GCC ...
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Why might RUNPATH be ignored by the loader after system libraries are found?
I have an executable which is linked with several dynamic libraries (.so). These libraries are found in 2 different local folders. When linking the executable, the RUNPATH of the executable is ...
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The library path of gold linker (ld.gold)
How to set library search path through environment variables? (since I'm using bazel)
How to print library search path used by ld.gold (so I can check if I set it correctly)
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I'm compiling a ...
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Calculation of relocation address; ELF
I am learning about the relocation from the ELF reference and this blog, but I can't get my head around calculating the relocation address.
Suppose we have two files A and B of type ET_REL, we want ...
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Runtime library search order on AIX
If I understand correctly, the variables LIBPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH have a higher priority than the argument to the linker -blibpath. I'm looking for how to tell the loader to search for libraries ...
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How to load android binaries in Debian environment?
I am trying to run adbd from within a chrooted environment. I can run it fine with Android's LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD ./linker64 $PWD/adbd.
When I try to run ./adbd I get:
bash: ./adbd: cannot execute: ...
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Linker cannot find libpthread
I am trying to build 32bit versions of two programs, and both shows the same error message
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /media/34GB/Arquivos-de-Programas-Linux/Glibc-2.17-32bit/lib/libpthread.so.0
I ...
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Existing .so file cannot be loaded even though it exists, seems to depend on Docker host OS
I have built Qt6 in an Alma8 based Docker container, with the Docker host being Fedora 35.
Under some circumstances (described below), all Qt libs cannot load libQt6Core.so[.6[.2.4]]. But that file ...
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How to get meson to use a library in a different lib directory?
I have two versions of a library, zita-convolver3 and zita-convolver4. The system library is zita-convolver3, but i want to link against zita-convolver4, which is stored in a local user directory.
How ...
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How does RAM get divided into Kernel Space and User Space
I understand that with Linux, RAM gets divided into kernel space and user space. Kernel space is reserved for running the kernel, and user space applications should not have direct access to the ...
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Linker unable to find header and library files
I've installed the CHERI simulator from this link.
It allows me to use the clang compiler for both risc-v and a capability extended risc-v architecture.
I've defined the following aliases
alias clang-...
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Usage of objcopy / elfedit to patchelf symbol (versions) in elf file
The context is as follows: on my o.s. there is (already) liba.so.v2 of "liba" which contains the string 'symbol_version-2' as the symbol version for its functions , e.g. functionX@version-2 ...
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Weird linking issue with libldap using cmake
I am trying to build SimGear from the FlightGear project using the download_an_compile.sh script (which uses CMake to build the binaries). The build went fine so far, but when the script tried linking ...
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FreeBSD - problem with linking protobuf
I have a small application that was tested on Linux and it worked. Now I would like to build the same code on FreeBSD. To build it on FreeBSD I needed to change a little my Makefile. Here is my ...
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