From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 15:17:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04674 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04664 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:17:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA14709; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:12:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199809032212.AAA14709@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: ldd won't find a lib a second time In-Reply-To: <199809032203.AAA08050@yacht.domestic.de> from Joachim Kuebart at "Sep 4, 98 00:03:49 am" To: joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Joachim Kuebart) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Joachim Kuebart: > > Life might be easier if rtld searched using the main program's rpath if > > the search with the shared lib's rpath failed. > > That would be wrong. The compiled-in search path is supposed to > allow vendors to supply their versions of libraries. It's certainly > not a good thing to ignore these 'hints'. You wouldn't be ignoring them. You would only try a little additional guessing at finding a smart replacement when they proved wrong. /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message