Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:36:33 +0200 From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <19980920013633.A425@xaa.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <199809192032.NAA02450@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 01:32:43PM -0700 References: <19980920042741.A6144@clear.co.nz> <199809192032.NAA02450@austin.polstra.com>
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> > The ELF hints file is built by sbin/ldconfig/elfhints.c, which is very > > particular about the files in the search path it will include - for > > example, in /usr/local/lib, libslang.so.1.2.2 is built by the slang port, > > but no link under the name libslang.so.1 is present. > It is intentional that the ELF ldconfig ignores libraries with more > than one version number. The problem you're seeing is simply caused > by the fact that the libslang port hasn't been updated yet for ELF. > See the conversion guidelines for more details: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~asami/elf-guidelines.txt Well, I started looking for it alright, but it seems a bit rude to me to just make it libslang.1, and considering that the libslang makefile is talking about elf major and minor version numbers, I got confused a little :-) does elf except only major, or is that a FreeBSD specific thing, or what? And why doesn't it matter when versions get upgraded and all? Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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