register_type failing

Hi,

We are using RHEL7.5, traditional C++ API, and RTI DDS v5.3.1.

Our application is composed of multiple shared libraries.  Each shared library shares a common topic.  Our applicaiton also consists of a single domain participant.  I'm seeing a problem wrt to the use of register_type.

Each shared library calls register_type using the same type and topic.  This works when the first shared library is loaded.  This does not work when additional shared libraries are loaded; We are seeing register_type return DDS_RETCODE_PRECONDITION_NOT_MET. Our workaround is to make sure we only call register_type once.  We would rather not do this so these shared libraries can be used with our applicatoins without recompile.

We expected that calling register_type would work if called with the same type and topic that were already registered because of this statement in the docs wrt to FooTypeSupport::register_type:

The same DDSTypeSupport can be registered multiple times with a DDSDomainParticipant using the same or different values for the type_name. If register_type is called multiple times on the same DDSTypeSupport with the same DDSDomainParticipant and type_name, the second (and subsequent) registrations are ignored but the operation returns DDS_RETCODE_OK.

https://community.rti.com/static/documentation/connext-dds/5.3.1/doc/api/connext_dds/api_cpp/structFooTypeSupport.html#a25b70f0c36cbb4ba95e6ef08e094e84c

is this statement wrong? Or is there somethign special that must be done with shared libraries to get this functionality above?

tia,be