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Linker and Libraries Guide     Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library
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Preface

Part I Using the Link-Editor and Runtime Linker

1.  Introduction to the Oracle Solaris Link Editors

2.  Link-Editor

3.  Runtime Linker

4.  Shared Objects

5.  Interfaces and Versioning

6.  Establishing Dependencies with Dynamic String Tokens

Capability Specific Shared Objects

Reducing Filtee Searches

Instruction Set Specific Shared Objects

Reducing Filtee Searches

System Specific Shared Objects

Locating Associated Dependencies

Dependencies Between Unbundled Products

Security

Part II Quick Reference

7.  Link-Editor Quick Reference

8.  Versioning Quick Reference

Part III Advanced Topics

9.  Direct Bindings

10.  Mapfiles

11.  Extensibility Mechanisms

Part IV ELF Application Binary Interface

12.  Object File Format

13.  Program Loading and Dynamic Linking

14.  Thread-Local Storage

Part V Appendices

A.  Linker and Libraries Updates and New Features

B.  System V Release 4 (Version 1) Mapfiles

Index

System Specific Shared Objects

The dynamic tokens $OSNAME, $OSREL, $PLATFORM and $MACHINE are expanded at runtime to provide system specific information. These tokens are available for filters, runpath, or dependency definitions.

$OSNAME expands to reflect the name of the operating system, as displayed by the utility uname(1) with the -s option. $OSREL expands to reflect the operating system release level, as displayed by uname -r. $PLATFORM expands to reflect the underlying platform name, as displayed by uname -i. $MACHINE expands to reflect the underlying machine hardware name, as displayed by uname -m.

The following example shows how the auxiliary filter libfoo.so.1 can be designed to access a platform specific filtee libbar.so.1.

$ LD_OPTIONS='-f /platform/$PLATFORM/lib/libbar.so.1' \
cc -o libfoo.so.1 -G -K pic -h libfoo.so.1 -R. foo.c
$ elfdump -d libfoo.so.1 | egrep 'SONAME|AUXILIARY'
       [2]  SONAME            0x1                 libfoo.so.1
       [3]  AUXILIARY         0x96                /platform/$PLATFORM/lib/libbar.so.1

This mechanism is used in the Oracle Solaris OS to provide platform specific extensions to the shared object /lib/libc.so.1.