From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 15 15:59:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27575 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:59:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27566 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA04779; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:59:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: John Polstra cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur In-Reply-To: <199808151705.KAA17832@austin.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John Polstra wrote: > For the short term, you may have to simply ensure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH > is set properly. It's on my list to fix the ELF dynamic linker so > that it can also get its search path from the ldconfig hints file. Whats wrong with specifying the search path with the '-R' flag when the program is linked? Just because Linux didn't get this right doesn't mean we have to follow suit. As a rule, on Solaris, I dislike having LD_LIBRARY_PATH set at all. -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message