Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:38:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF? Message-ID: <199809030338.WAA10610@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809022343.QAA26085@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:43:21 -0700) References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980902111219.689F-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca> <199809021600.JAA22787@austin.polstra.com> <199809022313.SAA09819@detlev.UUCP> <199809022343.QAA26085@austin.polstra.com>
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>>> You specify the search path at _link_ time with LD_RUN_PATH or the >>> "-R" linker option. The path is saved in the executable or shared >>> library itself. >> How is this a win? Say I'm taking a binary from somebody who >> installed libXpm in /usr/X11R6/lib, and didn't have a /usr/local/lib, >> which is where my libXpm resides. > Could I ask a big favor of all you folks out there? Wait and see > what the elf team delivers and then try it out? Oh, I'm sorry, John! I didn't realize that this wasn't the final spec that we were discussing! I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers with that question. I was just caught off guard with the idea. I think I'll go play elsewhere (say, hacking the n+1 projects I've got lined up already) for a while before I get into any more trouble here. :-) Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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