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Modified: . STATUS Log: Don't let us forgot a problem with DSO + NetBSD. Revision Changes Path 1.450 +20 -0 apache-1.3/STATUS Index: STATUS =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/STATUS,v retrieving revision 1.449 retrieving revision 1.450 diff -u -r1.449 -r1.450 --- STATUS 1998/07/25 08:26:14 1.449 +++ STATUS 1998/07/25 13:33:51 1.450 @@ -166,6 +166,26 @@ Open issues: + * Underscores on symbols in DSO situation is broken for NetBSD: + Here is a private conversation between me (rse) and Charles Hannum of + the NetBSD project: + + From: "Charles M. Hannum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + > We have a bug report at the Apache BugDB (see + > http://bugs.apache.org/private/index/full/2462) where a user says + > under a particular NetBSD platform (NetBSD/pmax 1.3.2) the symbols on + > dlsym() don't need an underscore. In FreeBSD world we always had the + > underscore, + > [...] + This is less an issue of OS, and more an issue of a.out vs. ELF. The + underscores are always used for a.out, and are never used for ELF. + Therefore, on any platform where we use ELF (that would be Alpha, MIPS, + PowerPC and UltraSPARC currently, although there are plans to eventually + switch on other platforms), the underscores should not be added, and on + all other platforms they should be. + You can differentiate by comparing the output of `uname -m' with any + of: alpha bebox macppc newsmips ofppc pica pmax sparc64. + * How should an Apache binary release tarball look? NOTE: This should be resolved before 1.3.1 !!
