Re: libX11's libXcursor dlopen

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:23:32 +0200, Petre Rodan wrote:

> 24472  24472 example  CALL  open(0x7f7fff2a4618,0,6)
> 24472  24472 example  NAMI  "/usr/X11R7/lib/libXcursor.so.2"
> 24472  24472 example  RET   open 4
>
> where does that query for version '2' of the library come from?


$ uname -a
NetBSD snips 10.1_STABLE NetBSD 10.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Fri Dec 26 12:48:48 MSK 2025  uwe@tower:/home/uwe/work/netbsd/build-10/obj/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC macppc
$ ls -l libXcursor.so*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     17 Dec 26 12:28 libXcursor.so -> libXcursor.so.2.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     17 Dec 26 12:28 libXcursor.so.2 -> libXcursor.so.2.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  55104 Dec 26 12:28 libXcursor.so.2.0


> simply compiling /usr/xsrc/external/mit/libXcursor/dist results in
> library version '1.0'.

https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/external/mit/xorg/lib/libXcursor/shlib_version

revision 1.2
date: 2009-01-11 06:10:11 +0300;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -3;
bump majors


It's 2.0 in netbsd.  I don't remember why...


-uwe