linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc

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Message-Id: <20090804.060212.01750529.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:02:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, acme@...hat.com, kyle@...artin.ca,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, anton@...ba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fweisbec@...il.com,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com, paulus@...ba.org, williams@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] basic perf support for sparc

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:29:00 +0200

> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 11:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > +static void load_perf_bfd_demangle(void)
>> > +{
>> > +	void *handle = dlopen("libbfd-2.19.51.0.2-17.fc11.so", RTLD_NOW);
>> 
>> Hm, this does not look like a very generic solution. Is there some 
>> way to do a library search to figure out the name? I guess a glob 
>> match on /usr/lib/libbfd*.so?
> 
> I'd simply go for libbfd.so and raise a bug report against fedora. A
> link archive named .so is just stupid.

It really isn't, I find it surprising why people are so up in
arms about this.  It's a quite common technique.
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