From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 20:39:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA05423 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05418 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-141.camalott.com [208.229.74.141]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08587; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:40:22 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA10610; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:38:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:38:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809030338.WAA10610@detlev.UUCP> To: jdp@polstra.com CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199809022343.QAA26085@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:43:21 -0700) Subject: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199809021600.JAA22787@austin.polstra.com> <199809022313.SAA09819@detlev.UUCP> <199809022343.QAA26085@austin.polstra.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> 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