Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:59:54 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.lib.mk Message-ID: <20030904205954.GA2702@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030904185839.GB4481@sunbay.com> References: <200309040429.h844TBhD058678@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030904083617.GA56261@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030904092755.GD45051@sunbay.com> <20030904140129.GA61909@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030904155659.GC97732@sunbay.com> <20030904162656.GA396@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030904174100.GY695@roark.gnf.org> <20030904185839.GB4481@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:58:39PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Linux looks things up in both /lib and
> /usr/lib, and does not have symlinks from /usr/lib to /lib.
uh?
suse# cat /usr/lib/libc.so
/* GNU ld script
Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
the static library, so try that secondarily. */
GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )
suse# ls /lib/libc.* /usr/lib/libc.*
/lib/libc.so.6* /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc.so
> The only reason while I still think we should support both
> /lib and /usr/lib in cc(1) and ld(1) by default is to allow
> our users to have /usr symlinked somethere, otherwise relative
> symlinking from /usr/lib to ../../lib does not work, and we
> are back to that endless thread. BTW, NetBSD uses absolute
> paths in symlinks from /usr/lib to /lib:
>
> > ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so*
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Aug 30 14:58 /usr/lib/libz.so -> /lib/libz.so.0.3
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Aug 30 14:58 /usr/lib/libz.so.0 -> /lib/libz.so.0.3
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Aug 30 14:58 /usr/lib/libz.so.0.3 -> /lib/libz.so.0.3
I think we should also -- one does not care about the .so links when
running single user with / mounted elsewhere.
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