From: Angus Lees Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:17:39 +0200 Subject: Set DT_SONAME when building dylibs Forwarded: no In Rust, library filenames include a version-specific hash to help the run-time linker find the correct version. Unlike in C/C++, the compiler looks for all libraries matching a glob that ignores the hash and reads embedded metadata to work out versions, etc. The upshot is that there is no need for the usual "libfoo.so -> libfoo-1.2.3.so" symlink common with C/C++ when building with Rust, and no need to communicate an alternate filename to use at run-time vs compile time. If linking to a Rust dylib from C/C++ however, a "libfoo.so -> libfoo-$hash.so" symlink may well be useful and in this case DT_SONAME=libfoo-$hash.so would be required. More mundanely, various tools (eg: dpkg-shlibdeps) complain if they don't find DT_SONAME on shared libraries in public directories. This patch passes -Wl,-soname=$outfile when building dylibs (and using a GNU linker). --- compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs =================================================================== --- rust.orig/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs +++ rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs @@ -2359,6 +2359,13 @@ fn add_order_independent_options( } add_rpath_args(cmd, sess, codegen_results, out_filename); + + if (crate_type == config::CrateType::Dylib || crate_type == config::CrateType::Cdylib) + && sess.target.linker_flavor.is_gnu() { + let filename = String::from(out_filename.file_name().unwrap().to_str().unwrap()); + let soname = [String::from("-Wl,-soname=") + &filename]; + cmd.args(&soname); + } } // Write the NatVis debugger visualizer files for each crate to the temp directory and gather the file paths.