Global symbol suppression

kevin.hendry · External Since: Jul 13, 2007 Posts: 1

We have a problem in our particular embedded environment where two
application are linked on together on and executed on a linux
platform. The compilation tools are also only available on linux.
The problem is that our application and the other application both use
different versions of a particular library, and the linking seems to
get screwy. So the application we cannot change bails out while
trying to resolve some symbols into our memory space.

Are there any tools available for linux that would resolve this sort
of symbol collision? We've tried a number of linker options to no
avail.

Wolfgang Mües · External Since: Apr 07, 2004 Posts: 21

kevin.hendry.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> The problem is that our application and the other application both use
> different versions of a particular library

Last resort:
Link your application with the static version of the library.

regards
Wolfgang

Juergen Beisert · External Since: Dec 08, 2005 Posts: 11

Kevin,

kevin.hendry.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> We have a problem in our particular embedded environment where two
> application are linked on together on and executed on a linux
> platform. The compilation tools are also only available on linux.
> The problem is that our application and the other application both use
> different versions of a particular library, and the linking seems to
> get screwy. So the application we cannot change bails out while
> trying to resolve some symbols into our memory space.
>
> Are there any tools available for linux that would resolve this sort
> of symbol collision? We've tried a number of linker options to no
> avail.

If you are forced to use shared libraries, install both versions of the
required libraries on your target.

Juergen