Hi there - I was wondering if it's possible to somehow set argv[0] when calling the dynamic linker to load a program.
The reason I want to do this (in case there's a better way) - I was looking into compiling programs with musl libc, and distributing the binaries with the needed libc.so file, so I could have a directory structure like:
/bin
| app
/lib
| libc.so
| some_other_lib.so
I can set the rpath to $ORIGIN/../lib so the whole folder is relocatable, but as far as i know, there's no equivalent concept for setting the dynamic linker with a path that's relative to the binary.
My current idea is to have a wrapper script, so my structure would be something like:
/bin
| app.bin <- actual binary
| app
/lib
| libc.so
| some_other_lib.so
The 'app' script could find the actual, absolute path to itself and figure out where libc.so is, ending with a line like
exec /path/to/libc.so /path/to/app.bin arg1 arg2 etc
I'd like to retain whatever was actually typed on the command line (in this case, set argv[0] to "app"), since many apps look at argv[0] to change behavior, ie - gzip vs gunzip.
I tried seeing if there was some switch I could pass to the linker, etc - as far as I can tell, there's no easy way to do this.
Thanks in advance!!
-John Regan