Creating an extension for a Shared Library

[pdietl]

So when a tcz file is loaded, an optional script can be automatically ran. When one is creating an extension for a shared object library, does one need to include a script which calls ldconfig to add your library to the cache?

[polikuo]

If you configured with --prefix=/usr/local
It's OK to omit the start-up script.

[pdietl]

So say your squahsfs is

    /usr/local/lib/thing.so
    /usr/local/lib/thing.so.1
    /usr/local/lib/thing.so.1.0.0

When you load the fs, it will copy those files from the tcz into those directories.
But is ld.so.cache automatically updated? If it isn't then the loader should not be able to find them.

[polikuo]

When you load the fs, it will copy those files from the tcz into those directories.

Unless you have copy2fs enabled.
Otherwise, the symbolic link is created instead.

But is ld.so.cache automatically updated? If it isn't then the loader should not be able to find them.

It's written inside the tce-load script.

[pdietl]

Ah that makes sense. I should have considered that tce-load is a shell script. For anyone else who is curious, th ldconfig set is performed in the "update_system" function.

Thanks for the help!