SunOS 4.0 Dynamic Linking

[Steve Souza @eldest]

Sun-Gods:

We have a job spooler application here that has suddenly broken
under SunOS 4.0.

The setup is analogous to the remote shell software in that commands
are remotely executed by a root daemon on behalf of users.  The main
difference is that the root daemon executes the job by doing a popen()
on

	". scriptfile"

(as opposed to a fork/exec, as it will someday), where "scriptfile"
contains a list of Bourne shell style variable initializations followed
by the command to execute.

The application compiles and runs without a hitch, but when "scriptfile"
hits a 4.0 executable (i.e. the user command), it barfs with the
message:

	crt0: /usr/lib/ld.so mapping failure

If a 3.x program binary is copied to the remote (4.0) machine, the
daemon has no problem executing it, so it appears to be a problem with
4.0 dynamic linking in a shell environment that is somehow different.
I've tried compiling both the daemon software and the target command with
and without the -Bstatic switch, to no avail.

Any thoughts, suggestions, or guesses?

Thanks!

Steve Souza		      ...ucsd!telesoft!souza, telesoft!souza at ucsd.edu
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