Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:40:36 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile src/etc rc src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist Message-ID: <199805271840.TAA17779@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 23:06:40 %2B0200." <199805262106.XAA27629@sos.freebsd.dk>
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> In reply to Garrett Wollman who wrote:
> > <<On Tue, 26 May 1998 13:12:58 -0700 (PDT), Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
> >
> > > This will after a make world & reboot give a system that no
> > > longer uses /usr/lib/*, infact one could remove all the old
> > > libraries there, they are not used anymore.
> >
> > Except for all the inconvenient third-party software...
>
> Well, there is no real solution for that I'm afraid..
>
> At runtime shared libs wil be resolved via rtld which knows
> where to look for libs.
>
> Systems that rely on libs being in /usr/lib via hard path will
> fail, ie Makefiles with a wired in hard path, we can then argue
> to death who is broken...
>
> Another story is what we are going to do with /usr/local/lib :(
Any ideas for /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/loadalias.c ? It dlopen()s and
dlsym()s with a fixed path prefix.
Cheers.
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
> Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> ..
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