From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 1 09:10:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02063 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles243.castles.com [208.214.165.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02017 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04142; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:06:34 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809010906.JAA04142@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey cc: John Birrell , Ben Smithurst , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:47:29 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:06:33 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > If you haven't already done so, edit /etc/rc and change the _LDC line > > to reference /usr/lib/aout instead of /usr/lib. Once you do that and > > re-run ldconfig (or just reboot), your aout libraries will function > > normally (they are deprecated, though). > > I'm a little confused. I did the upgrade, but I'd had the _LDC pointing > to /usr/lib/aout beforehand, because that's where the new libs were > being put. The upgrade seemed to stick new aout libs in /usr/lib/aout, > but also put new libs in /usr/lib. File doesn't tell me if the ones in > /usr/lib are ELF or not, but from the timestamp on those (which is a few > minutes after the timestamp on the /usr/lib/aout ones) I suspect that > they are. If my system is now ELF, why the advice to add /usr/lib/aout > to my _LDC? Especially since I had already had /usr/lib/aout replacing > /usr/lib in the _LDC, shouldn't I take the "/aout" off now that I've > upgraded? > > Oddly enough, I checked one of my new executeables in /usr/bin, and ldd > tells me that it's linked to libs in /usr/lib, even tho /usr/lib itself > isn't on my _LDC line. I'm a little confused by this. Read the rest of the message that you're replying to: > > ldconfig will die with aout. ELF does not need hints since it handles > > just a single version number of a library and knowing that can go straight > > to the library name. > > > > /usr/lib is the normal place for system libraries, so the elf versions > > belong there. You don't need to make any links in /usr/lib. In fact you > > should just stick with what the build process puts there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message