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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#26048: Use absolute file names in NEED instead of adding many
	entries to RUNPATH
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:35:39 +0100
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> As Andy just noted on IRC, shared library lookup is inefficient in Guix,
> because there=E2=80=99s one entry per library in RUNPATH.  So we get:
>
> open("/gnu/store/y8ppqsxiki39n4mqpb4mab6bgwqsnnp7-libgc-7.4.2/lib/libm.so=
.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/gnu/store/w0bkj9qh7iqcklm5ld8ghg1ynnzqyv00-libffi-3.2.1/lib/libm.s=
o.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/gnu/store/d5gw4i6bnyznmbr55ba39bl3pgrhsyp0-libunistring-0.9.6/lib/=
libm.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/gnu/store/6k08nkddnrb15h5pwp1s0fa94mr1qas9-gmp-6.1.1/lib/libm.so.6=
", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/gnu/store/9yn89bkl8vcg5rh9dmw3jijciwgrwjls-libltdl-2.4.6/lib/libm.=
so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/gnu/store/iwgi9001dmmihrjg4rqhd6pa6788prjw-glibc-2.24/lib/libm.so.=
6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =3D 3
>
> An alternate approach would be for ld-wrapper to replace =E2=80=9C-lfoo=
=E2=80=9D with
> =E2=80=9C/gnu/store/=E2=80=A6/libfoo.so=E2=80=9D, which would add the abs=
olute file name as
> NEEDed in the ELF file.

This is actually impossible, as discussed at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-09/msg00075.html>:

  Per the ELF v1.2 spec=C2=B9 (page 82), setting DT_NEEDED to
  an absolute file name would prevent overriding via LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
  which is not desirable.

  It turns out we cannot even set DT_NEEDED to an absolute file name in
  the first place, because ld records the DT_SONAME of the library, when
  it=E2=80=99s available (which is the case most of the time), rather than =
its
  file name.

  =C2=B9 http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/elf/elf.pdf

Ludo=E2=80=99.