From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 03:12:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04483 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:12:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minor.stranger.com (stranger.vip.best.com [204.156.129.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA04474 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dog.farm.org (dog.farm.org [207.111.140.47]) by minor.stranger.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA14959; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:13:11 -0700 Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id DAA13176; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:11:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199707211011.DAA13176@dog.farm.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.current Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <8050.868713758@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: > > My personal take on the ldconfig situation : ldconfig should have an > > internal set of default paths (initiallt just /usr/lib), which can be > > manually inhibited on the commandline if required, it should support > > /etc/ld.so.conf by reading it if it exists, and it should take paths on > > the commandline. > > > > As for whether /etc/ld.so.conf should override the inbuilt search > > path, the obvious answer is _no_; there is a perfectly good control > > for this on the commandline. > Yeesh - then by that logic, I guess, I should just throw all of the > existing _LDC munging stuff in rc and just make an ldconfig_flags > variable which you can set to whatever you want. :-) Yes, why not? The only disadvantage is that system would not boot multi-user without rc.conf ; but it wouldn't anyway now, with networking and many other vital options there. Just try it... ( mv /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf- ; reboot ) Perhaps rc scripts should have some fall-back behaviour when rc.conf is absent. -- "The Soviet Union does not exist any more in its present format." CCCP:> format CCCP: /u --