Re: [PATCH] Add PCB.

[taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> In packaging PCB I noticed that our Mesa package loads a few libraries
>> with dlopen() but does not use absolute paths to store items.  In the
>> case of PCB, dlopen("libudev.so.0") fails and causes "pcb" die on
>> startup with a segfault.  To prevent this until the Mesa package is
>> fixed I wrapped the executable.
>
> OK.  Feel free to fix MESA eventually.  :-)

Is anyone working on this?  Otherwise I'll look into it because I
noticed mplayer2 has the same issue.

Some basic help is appreciated by the way.  How do we generally handle
dlopen() uses in Guix?

Does our rpath stuff not fix the issue, and why?

When the argument is a literal string, I suppose we can patch it to be
an absolute pathname.  And when it's parameterized?  E.g. when a program
uses a private wrapper function around dlopen(), then I guess I should
track all uses of that wrapper function?

How about when the program dlopen()s a library of its own?  Should it be
made an absolute path to the package's output directory?

Taylan