From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 12 06:24:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA05015 for current-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA05010 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:24:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id GAA08059; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:22:44 -0700 (PDT) To: Michael Smith cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, torstenb@ramsey.tb.9715.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hans@brandinnovators.com Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:44:33 +0930." <199707121314.WAA28818@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <8050.868713758@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No good. I want to run startups in /usr/local, but only ldconfig in > /usr/X11R6, or vice versa. If you want to do this, the only way that works > is to explicitly enumerate both sets of paths : > > local_loadpath="..." > local_startups="..." Hmmmmm. > My personal take on the ldconfig situation : ldconfig should have an > internal set of default paths (initiallt just /usr/lib), which can be > manually inhibited on the commandline if required, it should support > /etc/ld.so.conf by reading it if it exists, and it should take paths on > the commandline. > > As for whether /etc/ld.so.conf should override the inbuilt search > path, the obvious answer is _no_; there is a perfectly good control > for this on the commandline. Yeesh - then by that logic, I guess, I should just throw all of the existing _LDC munging stuff in rc and just make an ldconfig_flags variable which you can set to whatever you want. :-) Jordan