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Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands.
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Now this is generally a good thing from the vendor's standpoint (and
 * it was, in fact, Xi Graphics, Inc. who first requested it) since they
 * don't have to messily edit the /etc/rc file, they can just tack their
 * own lib paths onto the end of /etc/ld.so.conf.  The question which is
 * now raised in my mind, however, is a simple one:

And Xi Graphics seems to have ignored my comment about just using the
existing framework and adding /usr/{local,X11R6}/etc/rc.d/foo.sh to
run ldconfig.sh and any other startup stuff.  The -m flag to ldconfig
was added for a reason.

See what the modula-3-lib port does.  I don't think an /etc/ld.so.conf
is necessary (much less /usr/local/etc/ld.so.conf).  I propose backing
it out.

Satoshi