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Subject: Re: ldconfig and ld-elf.so
In-Reply-To: <199806290543.HAA16576@yacht.domestic.de> from Joachim Kuebart at "Jun 29, 98 07:43:42 am"
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In reply to Joachim Kuebart who wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why does ld-elf.so fail to find libraries in /usr/local/lib that are
> correctly hinted at by ldconfig unless I add /usr/local/lib to my
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Because the ELF rtld doesn't support hints from ldconfig because
ldconfig doesn't know about ELF.

> This is in a fairly recent ELF world.

That isn't supported yet :)

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.

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