1.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgment: 14.\" This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg. 15.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 16.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 20.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 21.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 22.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 23.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 24.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 25.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 26.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 27.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd May 31, 2003 32.Dt RTLD 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm ld-elf.so.1 , 36.Nm ld.so , 37.Nm rtld 38.Nd run-time link-editor 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Nm 42utility is a self-contained shared object providing run-time 43support for loading and link-editing shared objects into a process' 44address space. 45It is also commonly known as the dynamic linker. 46It uses the data structures 47contained within dynamically linked programs to determine which shared 48libraries are needed and loads them using the 49.Xr mmap 2 50system call. 51.Pp 52After all shared libraries have been successfully loaded, 53.Nm 54proceeds to resolve external references from both the main program and 55all objects loaded. 56A mechanism is provided for initialization routines 57to be called on a per-object basis, giving a shared object an opportunity 58to perform any extra set-up before execution of the program proper begins. 59This is useful for C++ libraries that contain static constructors. 60.Pp 61The 62.Nm 63utility itself is loaded by the kernel together with any dynamically-linked 64program that is to be executed. 65The kernel transfers control to the 66dynamic linker. 67After the dynamic linker has finished loading, 68relocating, and initializing the program and its required shared 69objects, it transfers control to the entry point of the program. 70.Pp 71To locate the required shared objects in the file system, 72.Nm 73may use a 74.Dq hints 75file prepared by the 76.Xr ldconfig 8 77utility. 78.Pp 79The 80.Nm 81utility 82recognizes a number of environment variables that can be used to modify 83its behaviour as follows: 84.Pp 85.Bl -tag -width ".Ev LD_LIBMAP_DISABLE" 86.It Ev LD_LIBMAP_DISABLE 87If set, disables the use of 88.Xr libmap.conf 5 . 89.It Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH 90A colon separated list of directories, overriding the default search path 91for shared libraries. 92This is ignored for set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs. 93.It Ev LD_PRELOAD 94A list of shared libraries, separated by colons and/or white space, 95to be linked in before any 96other shared libraries. 97If the directory is not specified then 98the directories specified by 99.Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH 100will be searched first 101followed by the set of built-in standard directories. 102This is ignored for set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs. 103.It Ev LD_BIND_NOW 104When set to a nonempty string, causes 105.Nm 106to relocate all external function calls before starting execution of the 107program. 108Normally, function calls are bound lazily, at the first call 109of each function. 110.Ev LD_BIND_NOW 111increases the start-up time of a program, but it avoids run-time 112surprises caused by unexpectedly undefined functions. 113.It Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS 114When set to a nonempty string, causes 115.Nm 116to exit after loading the shared objects and printing a summary which includes 117the absolute pathnames of all objects, to standard output. 118.It Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_ALL 119When set to a nonempty string, causes 120.Nm 121to expand the summary to indicate which objects caused each object to 122be loaded. 123.It Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT1 124.It Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_FMT2 125When set, these variables are interpreted as format strings a la 126.Xr printf 3 127to customize the trace output and are used by 128.Xr ldd 1 Ns 's 129.Fl f 130option and allows 131.Xr ldd 1 132to be operated as a filter more conveniently. 133The following conversions can be used: 134.Bl -tag -width 4n 135.It Li %a 136The main program's name 137(also known as 138.Dq __progname ) . 139.It Li \&%A 140The value of the environment variable 141.Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_PROGNAME 142.It Li %o 143The library name. 144.It Li %m 145The library's major version number. 146.It Li %p 147The full pathname as determined by 148.Nm rtld Ns 's 149library search rules. 150.It Li %x 151The library's load address. 152.El 153.Pp 154Additionally, 155.Ql \en 156and 157.Ql \et 158are recognized and have their usual meaning. 159.El 160.Sh FILES 161.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints" -compact 162.It Pa /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints 163Hints file. 164.It Pa /etc/libmap.conf 165The libmap configuration file. 166.El 167.Sh SEE ALSO 168.Xr ld 1 , 169.Xr ldd 1 , 170.Xr elf 5 , 171.Xr libmap.conf 5 , 172.Xr ldconfig 8 173