From f28529d7985df9d19f8a03600c96c8add57a296c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 02:41:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about ELF executables requiring to be linked with
 -export-dynamic for dlsym() searches inside the executable to work.

---
 lib/libc/gen/dlopen.3 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/dlopen.3 b/lib/libc/gen/dlopen.3
index 7cdfbd711043..9e848f9e8428 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/dlopen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/dlopen.3
@@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ The object-intrinsic functions
 and
 .Fn _fini
 are called with no arguments, and are not expected to return values.
+.Sh NOTES
+ELF executables need to be linked
+using the
+.Fl export-dynamic
+option to
+.Xr ld 1
+for symbols defined in the executable to become visible to 
+.Fn dlsym .
 .Sh ERRORS
 .Fn dlopen
 and