[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Compile in the ALSA search path instead of relying on ld.so.conf.

[Jordi Mallach]

From: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com>

The Ubuntu package currently uses ld.so.conf.d fragments to add
/usr/lib/alsa-lib and /usr/lib{32,64}/alsa-lib to the dlopen search path.
These don't *belong* on the global search path, and it becomes much more
problematic to put them there with the advent of multiarch because each
architecture then needs its own distinct config file to add the separate
path... which is then also put in the global library namespace.  Instead,
let ALSA make use of the already defined ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR to look up
plugins.

Signed-off-by: Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>
---
 src/dlmisc.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dlmisc.c b/src/dlmisc.c
index 2de0234..4b8a02c 100644
--- a/src/dlmisc.c
+++ b/src/dlmisc.c
@@ -67,7 +67,25 @@ void *snd_dlopen(const char *name, int mode)
 #endif
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBDL
-	return dlopen(name, mode);
+	/*
+	 * Handle the plugin dir not being on the default dlopen search
+	 * path, without resorting to polluting the entire system namespace
+	 * via ld.so.conf.
+	 */
+	void *handle = NULL;
+	char *filename;
+
+	if (name && name[0] != '/') {
+		filename = malloc(sizeof(ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR) + 1 + strlen(name) + 1);
+		strcpy(filename, ALSA_PLUGIN_DIR);
+		strcat(filename, "/");
+		strcat(filename, name);
+		handle = dlopen(filename, mode);
+		free(filename);
+	}
+	if (!handle)
+		handle = dlopen(name, mode);
+	return handle;
 #else
 	return NULL;
 #endif
-- 
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