The -v option used to print useful information when operating on a.out
format libraries. After the removal of a.out support, it was accepted
but did not have any effect.
Remove the option and update the man-page.
While here mention the set of historic options that are accepted but
ignored: "-elf", "-s", and "-v".
The FILES section contained outdated information and did not mention
the way library directories of optional ports and packages are
included in the library search path recorded in the hints file.
The description of the "-B" option was incorrect (described a planned
change) for big-endian platforms (powerpc64). These do still default
to big-endian hints files, since the current version of the "pkg"
program expects the hints file to be in native byte-order.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44139
Make the ldconfig program accept hints files in little-endian and
big-endian format on all architectures.
The default format is the native byte-order of the respective host.
This is expected to change when a version of the pkg command is
available that implements support for either byte-order in its
internal ldconfig function. (Already committed in the development
tree of the pkg utility, a release is expected at the end of Q1/2024).
This update adds the -B option to the ldconfig program. It enforces
the creation of a big-endian hints file on a little-endian host.
The main purpose to is support of tests with non-native byte-order
files on little-endian hosts. It will be removed when all supported
FreeBSD releases use little-endian hints files by default.
When little-endian hints files are generally used, support of
either byte-order in libexec/rtld can also be removed.
When support for big-endian hints files is no longer required,
the COND_SWAP macro in ldconfig and rtld shall be replaced by
le32toh(), which just return their argument on little-endian
architectures.
Approved by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D44093
This will allow the latter to be removed, reducing the boilerplate
needed for a new libcompat.
Reviewed by: kib, brooks, jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40933
In most cases, usage does not return, so mark them as __dead2. For the
cases where they do return, they have not been marked __dead2.
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/735
_PATH_LD32_HINTS is unused because it is a.out remnant.
_PATH_ELF32_HINTS is provided by rtld_paths.h already.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Default action for ldconfig is specified as -R AKA 'append', and for
no-args (without options changing default actions), ldconfig should
append empty list of directories to current list. But because the check
was done before options were parsed out, presence of any option turned
off default rescan.
As result, innocently-looked commands like `ldconfig -v' were interpreted
as setting directory hints list to one specified on the command line,
i.e. empty.
Reported by: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/9592
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
Remove the option from man page and summary. Silently ignore it when
parsing command line for backward compatibility.
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
Use bool.
Use local variables instead of static.
Remove non-functional debugging override of hints file path.
Use explicit exit() instead of return from main.
Minor style tweaks.
Reviewed by: emaste
Tested by: jbeich
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33058
aout support in ldconfig hasn't been required since FreeBSD 2.x.
If someone needs to use FreeBSD 2 shared libraries they will be best
served by using a FreeBSD 2 ldconfig as well.
In aa5e1b42e6 we removed the ldconfig a.out invocation from rc.d but
left the support in ldconfig itself. Remove it now.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27481
aout support in ldconfig hasn't been required since FreeBSD 2.x.
Anyone still using FreeBSD 2 shared libraries can also use a FreeBSD 2
ldconfig to generate aout ldconfig hints.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
- Convert the (char *) cast+cast backs magic to
memcpy(3). Without this, the resulting code
is potentially risky with higher optimization
levels.
- Avoid same name when calling local variables,
as well as global symbols. This reduces
confusion for both human and compiler.
- Add necessary casts, consts
- Use new style function defination.
- Minor style.Makefile(5) tweak
- Bump WARNS?= from 0 to 6
** for the aout code: changes are intentionally limited
to ease maintaince.
under way to move the remnants of the a.out toolchain to ports. As the
comment in src/Makefile said, this stuff is deprecated and one should not
expect this to remain beyond 4.0-REL. It has already lasted WAY beyond
that.
Notable exceptions:
gcc - I have not touched the a.out generation stuff there.
ldd/ldconfig - still have some code to interface with a.out rtld.
old as/ld/etc - I have not removed these yet, pending their move to ports.
some includes - necessary for ldd/ldconfig for now.
Tested on: i386 (extensively), alpha
It does not help modern compilers, and some may take some hit from it.
(I also found several functions that listed *every* of its 10 local vars with
"register" -- just how many free registers do people think machines have?)
longer includes machine/elf.h.
* consumers of elf.h now use the minimalist elf header possible.
This change is motivated by Binutils 2.11.0 and too much clashing over
our base elf headers and the Binutils elf headers.
and emit a warning. This is a security measure since ldconfig
influences the shared libraries used by all programs.
I think the check should be made even more stringent by also
ignoring group-writable directories. I will make that change soon
unless we encounter a good reason not to do it.
Submitted by: Maxime Henrion <mhenrion@cybercable.fr>
standard places ("/etc/objformat", ${OBJFORMAT}, argv) for an
indication of the user's preferred object file format. This
consolidates some code that was starting to be duplicated in more
and more places.
Use the new function in ldconfig.
Note: I don't think that gcc should use getobjformat(), even though
it could. The compiler should limit itself to functions that are
widespread, to ease porting and cross-compilation.
MAP_FAILED.
Don't try to extend the mapping in place if it is too short.
There's no guarantee it will be possible. Remap the file instead.
Put in a few style fixes.
Submitted by: Bruce Evans <bde>
a different file than the a.out hints, namely, "/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints".
These hints consist only of the directory search path. There is
no hash table as in the a.out hints, because ELF doesn't have to
search for the file with the highest minor version number. (It
doesn't have minor version numbers at all.)
A single run of ldconfig updates either the a.out hints or the ELF
hints, but not both. The set of hints to process is selected in
the usual way, via /etc/objformat, or ${OBJFORMAT}, or the "-aout"
or "-elf" command line option. The rationale is that you probably
want to search different directories for ELF than for a.out.
"ldconfig -r" is faked up to produce output like we are used to,
except that for ELF there are no minor version numbers. This should
enable "ldconfig -r" to be used for checking LIB_DEPENDS in ports
even for ELF.
I implemented the ELF functionality in a new source file, with an
eye toward eliminating the a.out code entirely at some point in
the future.
Move a.out libraries to /usr/lib/aout to make space for ELF libs.
Make rtld usr /usr/lib/aout as default library path.
Make ldconfig reject /usr/lib as an a.out library path.
Fix various Makefiles for LIBDIR!=/usr/lib breakage.
This will after a make world & reboot give a system that no
longer uses /usr/lib/*, infact one could remove all the old
libraries there, they are not used anymore.
We are getting close to an ELF make world, but I'll let this
all settle for a week or two...
file based on the previous list of directories stored there which
should overcome a weakness of the '-m' switch which can only add
libs. This is an ideal way of updating the hints list after adding
or removing a shlib since it will remove entries that are gone and
doesn't need to have all the directories spelled out each time.
(eg: rm -f /usr/lib/libtcl75*; ldconfig -R) This only works for
version 2 hints files (which we've been generating for a year or
so) which store the path.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.