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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, obrien@NUXI.com, giffunip@asme.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rayshade port
Message-ID:  <199808200048.RAA01209@bubble.didi.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808200048.KAA04012@cimlogic.com.au> (message from John Birrell on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:48:37 %2B1000 (EST))

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 * From: John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>

 * ld.so will continue to work, provided that the libraries are referenced
 * with both  major and minot numbers 

That's the default, right?

 * 				      (since elf only uses a single number).
 * However, that doesn't address the issue of what format /usr/local/lib/*.a
 * files are.

I think it's fair to ask people to reinstall everything in
/usr/local/lib.  The part I was objecting was that they delete
everything first.

 * Would ports (generally) continue to work if the upgrade procedure were to
 * do the move and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the new locations? We think we'll end
 * up with ELF_LD_LIBRARY_PATH that the elf loader will look at first.

The stuff that are already on the system, I think most of them would
still work.  (Assuming LD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides -R...does it?)

 * If the move is automated, what do we have to do to be able to delete the
 * installed port? Do we need some sort of pkg_convert utility?

Don't worry too much about that.  People can blow away their
/usr/local/lib/aout at their leisure. :)

Satoshi

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