Re: [Gábor Gombás] Bug#564566: libkadm5clnt7: SONAME conflict with Heimdal

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Mon Jan 11 12:20:18 EST 2010


On 11/01/2010, at 5:58 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> Provided the libraries have different install locations, programs
> properly use rpath, and that the Heimdal and MIT libraries need never be
> loaded in the same process at once, then SONAME conflicts are not a
> problem.
> 
> However, with plug-in interfaces galore it's very likely that both will
> be loaded in the same process at some point.

Right, but RTLD_LOCAL should be used (HDBBridge uses this to have Heimdal and MIT libraries in the KDC).

> I recommend fixing the SONAME conflict.


I disagree, but...

-- Luke



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