Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216232
undefined symbols in compiz plugins
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:49 EST
Description of problem: The compiz plugins are full of undefined symbols. The gl* ones can be resolved by linking offending plugins against libGL.so. The rest... I dunno what they should like against, looks like they may be compiz-specific symbols. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6.x86_64 How reproducible: ldd -r /usr/lib64/compiz/lib*.so > /dev/null Additional info: The beryl packages I'm working on for Extras are similarly afflicted.
Created attachment 141537 [details] Undefined symbols in $libdir/compiz/lib*.so
This isn't a problem. They're plugins, not shared libraries. The process dlopening the .so files (compiz) is responsible for providing the unresolved symbols, which it does by either 1) linking to libGL or other libraries to provide the gl* symbols or 2) by exposing it's own internal API to the modules which provides the remaining symbols. Unresolved symbols are only a problem for shared libraries in /usr/lib that apps actually link against. In this case an unresolved symbol in a library will prevent the application from running. PS: try ldd -r on any .so file in /usr/lib/xorg :)
Ah, okay, works for me, you definitely know better than I do. I have the misfortune of the being the sucker that maintains the beryl bits in fedora extras, and has someone file a similar bug report for beryl. Saw the same w/compiz, so that's where this bug came from. I'll close the one filed against beryl too then. Thanks! :)