From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 5 09:26:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09459 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 09:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09452 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 09:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA11739; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: John Polstra cc: Alex , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF -current users: HEADS UP In-Reply-To: <199809051612.JAA22056@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote: > > > ahead)? Understand the point of this question isn't system libs, > > > its all the ports stuff, which just won't transition in one swell > > > foop like the system did. > > > > Move _all_ your a.out libs (except perhaps your static ones, which > > can most likely be deleted) to /usr/lib/aout. This frees up any > > other dirs to be purely ELF. > > One other thing I didn't mention. I am about to commit a fix which > will make ldconfig -aout ignore ELF shared libraries, and vice versa. > So if you have a directory containing both, the two invocations will > each pick only the correct libraries, ignoring the other ones. > > Actually I thought it was already that way, but I was wrong. Arghhh. I read this after the last message. This solves the ports problem neatly. Thanks, it was something like this I was specifically looking for. > > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message