Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:22:38 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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. Message-ID: <8050.868713758@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:44:33 %2B0930." <199707121314.WAA28818@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> 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
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