From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 22 17:34:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29012 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from george.lbl.gov (george.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29007 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09461; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:34:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) Message-Id: <199810230034.RAA09461@george.lbl.gov> To: jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: ld for loading dynamic library changed in 3.0-RELEASE? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Whether it is used at link time varies from system to system. Under > SunOS, it was used at link time. But under Linux, for example, it > apparently is not. I say that because they use the same ELF tools we > do, and the code simply isn't there to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH at link > time. Can we improve it? LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a UN*X environment variable which is used for all UNIX platforms, but may not for Linux. I think it is not a hard job. Ignore the platforms. Shall we always make things work better and better, but not following some restriction? we want the evolution. Just my two cents. -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message