From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 19 16:37:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20184 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 16:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20158 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 16:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@xaa.iae.nl) Received: from ariel.xaa.iae.nl (ariel.xaa.iae.nl [194.151.75.10]) by esmeralda.xaa.iae.nl (VMailer) with ESMTP id B357B36E; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:36:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by ariel.xaa.iae.nl (VMailer, from userid 1008) id 74BEC4561; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:36:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980920013633.A425@xaa.iae.nl> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:36:33 +0200 From: Mark Huizer To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig References: <19980920042741.A6144@clear.co.nz> <199809192032.NAA02450@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199809192032.NAA02450@austin.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 01:32:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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