From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 7:31: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.retec.net (unknown [207.99.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826AD37B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from newken (dhcp113.retec.net [207.99.22.113]) by apollo.retec.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA12565 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:25:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <028901c0911a$ef1e6e20$711663cf@icarz.com> From: "Ken Menzel" To: Subject: Bug in man page or ldconfig default behavoir? Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 10:30:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have couple of questions regarding ldconfig. First according to the manual in -stable -R Rescan the previously configured directories. This opens the previous hints file and fetches the directory list from the head- er. Any additional pathnames on the command line are also pro- cessed. This is the default action when no parameters are given. However try to add a new directory such as "ldconfig /usr/local/lib/mysql" and all the other directorys go away as evidenced by "ldconfig -r". However "ldconfig -R /usr/local/lib/mysql" does add the library properly. If -R is the default behavior why is the behavoir different with -R! Is the man page incorrect or does ldconfig have the wrong default behavior or am I confused? (I am confused anyway!). Also the -v switch seems to do nothing (on BSD/OS -v shows the libs added). Is there an advantage to not using /etc/ld.so.conf? Besides the obvious having lots of configs in rc.conf. Thanks Ken ----------------------------------------------------- Ken Menzel ICQ# 9325188 www.icarz.com kenm@icarz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message