Re: conflicting libraries at runtime

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joe Conway writes:
>>I'm having trouble with PL/R giving me a SIGSEGV *only* on Red Hat 9.
>>I've isolated it (at least the symptom) down to this: on RH9, a call to
>>re_compile_fastmap() uses /lib/tls/libc.so.6 instead of the
>>compiled-into-R function with the same name.
>
> The linker flag -Bsymbolic can help in these situations (at least on ELF
> systems). In the long term you need to fix the function names, though.

Thanks, Peter. I'll give that a try.

The function name is part of R itself, not PL/R, so I guess I'll contact
the R developers with this recommendation.

Thanks,

Joe