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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:19:29 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /lib/foo.so.X -> /usr/lib/foo.so
Message-ID:  <20030904211929.GA39916@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030904211050.GA3035@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 04), David O'Brien said:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:27:15PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:58:39PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The patch is not a problem (attached).  I've been looking at how
> > > our friends do this.  NetBSD has symlinks in /usr/lib to /lib,
> > > both to .so and .so.X, and their cc(1) and ld(1) don't look
> > > things in /lib.  Linux looks things up in both /lib and /usr/lib,
> > > and does not have symlinks from /usr/lib to /lib.
> > > 
> > There is a sad typo above: Linux *does* have symlinks from /usr/lib
> > to /lib, so both use /usr/lib for linking.
> 
> What version of Linux are you using?  SuSE Enterprise Linux 8, and
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 both do not have symlinks for libs from
> /usr/lib to /lib.  They use a different machanism:

I haven't updated in a while, but my Debian unstable box has ..

$ find /usr/lib/*.so -type l -ls | grep "> /lib" | wc -l
24

.. symlinks back to /lib. 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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