Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 09:09:18 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF -current users: HEADS UP Message-ID: <199809051609.JAA22021@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 00:03:11 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809042359340.21019-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> John, many of use have huge time investments in /usr/local/lib and > /usr/X11R6/lib ports-derived libraries. While I'm definitely going > to be wanting to transition these to elf, I'd not wanted to have to > do it suddenly. How will this ldconfig change affect the fact that > my elf system still must use many aout libs (and probably will for > some months ahead)? If you give it the -aout switch, or if it is running on an a.out system, or if OBJFORMAT=aout in the environment, the new ldconfig behaves exactly as it did before. So if you make the change to /etc/rc that I suggested, you will see no change whatsoever. The ldconfig hints for a.out and for ELF are in two completely separate files. On a mixed system, you can run ldconfig twice: once with "-aout" and once with "-elf". Presumably you would specify different directories for the two invocations. The two sets of hints don't get mixed up with each other. Just pretend like there are two ldconfig programs, one for a.out and the other for ELF. They don't really interact with each other at all. All clear now? John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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