Re: [Caml-list] glibc and ocaml/libasmrun.a

[Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>]

> This means the runtime (libasmrun.a) contains calls to dlopen(). Now
> I'm not sure why there are dlopen's in the native (ocamlopt)
> runtime. I thought only the bytecode one is using dlopen (to
> dynamically link stub libraries). If that is correct (ie the native
> runtime doesn't actually use dlopen) then I guess you can ignore the
> warning. 

This is entirely correct.  The reason why the native-code runtime
system contains the wrappers around dlopen() is that there exists
exactly one ocamlopt-compiled program that needs them: it's ocamlc.opt,
the natively-compiled bytecode compiler, which needs to dlopen()
shared libraries to check for the existence of symbols referenced from
external declarations in the Caml source.  

So, unless the Caml program happens to embark most of ocamlc
(unlikely!), you can safely ignore the warning at static linking time.

- Xavier Leroy