From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 15:26:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA17718 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17701 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA15549; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:25:59 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA23586; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:25:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA02051; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:17:45 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601092317.AAA02051@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:17:45 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601091925.LAA13967@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Jan 9, 96 11:25:45 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Polstra wrote: > > I've been listening lurkingly to this discussion about RPATH vs. > ldconfig. What strikes me about the argument is that both sides > are right. > > Kaleb is right -- RPATH is good and useful. J"org is right -- > ldconfig is good and useful. They don't have to be mutually > exclusive, you know. That's been about my conclusion, after an ongoing discussion with Kaleb in private mail. (Kaleb seems to be tired of it now?) I've been missing ldconfig in SVR4, and i'm sure i would have been missing RPATH if i were used to it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)