ELF reference and rpath

[haampie]

In the comments of the include files of this lib:

it appears that according to the ELF standard, the rpath is ignored in libraries, therefore if the path points to an executable, an empty string is returned

I believe ldd does not agree with this (running on ubuntu 16), as it also respects rpath of shared libraries.

Did you use http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/2003-12-17/ch5.dynamic.html#tag_encodings as a reference?

It seems Solaris has its own specs (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/819-0690/chapter6-42444.html#chapter6-tbl-52) that do not ignore rpath in shared libs.

[haampie]

Maybe it's worth pointing out that System V Application Binary Interface reference is still a DRAFT since 2003 :/

See http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/2003-12-17/contents.html

Edit: ok, so LSB 5.0.0 is probably the actual standard, and they confirm the ELF spec is a combination of System V Application Binary Interface and other references (https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.html#OBJFMT)