Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Re: requesting help

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 02:18:30AM +0000, Jules Gilbert wrote:

> Can someone at OpenBSD help??
>
> I recently switched over from FreeBSD to OpenBSD, I needed the bump up in security.
> Anyway, the dlfunc routine seems not to work in OpenBSD.  You know, this is part of the dynamic library stuff.

dlfunc() is FreeBSD specific and not part of the standard, but on the
internet you'll find implementation of dlfunc() in terms of dlsym().

>
> And very recently I moved to the clang system, again something that was forced on me.  What I'd like is to finish my project...
> Now...  I create C code, typically many thousands of lines of C,  then I have to compile these routines and run them.  When I only have several, no problem, I just edit the program to include them, done.  But the program makes use of machine genetics, and the first cut is typically just that.  The program makes a best-guess change and tackles the problem again.  Testing involves running against a substantial test suite, so I don't have problems with over-training and such.
> On the other hand I have the very real and very bad problem that I can 'tchange this program, I can run what I built under FreeBSD, and I'm wondering if I have to keep one box running under that OS because there my stuff runs just fine.
> So... if you know how I can:
> a) make dlfunc work under OpenBSD, that would be good, that would solve my problem and maybe let me finish up.  Or,
> b)  load and run C routines under clang, that would be another solution, though I am more familar with GCC,
>

Too vague a question to answer.

-Otto

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