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From: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com>
To: "Johan Karlsson" <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: Bug in man page or ldconfig default behavoir? 
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Thanks Johan,  Now I understand that the two sentences don't go
together:
 Any additional pathnames on the command line are also pro-
 cessed.  This is the default action when no parameters are given.

I expected the -R to be the default when any pathnames appeared on the
command line! English can be confusing.
Thanks Ken
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Karlsson" <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
To: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com>
Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Bug in man page or ldconfig default behavoir?


> At Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:30:42 EST, "Ken Menzel" wrote:
> > 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!).
>
> Hi
>
> You are giving ldconfig a parameter in your first example namle
> "/usr/local/lib/mysql", hence it does not use -R if you do not
> tell it to.
>
> Try just "ldconfig" and see the result.
>
> /Johan K
>
>
>



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