From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 19 12: 5:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E4837B403; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20484; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:05:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16251; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:05:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15151.41572.721434.703837@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:05:08 -0600 (MDT) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: John Baldwin , Peter Pentchev , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new kldpath(8): display/modify the module search path In-Reply-To: <3B2F958E.BC556A1E@mindspring.com> References: <3B2F958E.BC556A1E@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > To me, it seems more sensible to use the same interface that > > ldconfig uses. > > Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! > > ldconfig is a serious pain in the ass, ever since the "fix" > that made it not look in the linkage or configured directories > on a lookup miss. > > This is particularly aggregious if you have a "/opt" or some > other place where you prefer to install your ports or locally > developed software. > > Having to reboot to make things work really, really sucks -- > and that is often necessary if you build code from the net, > which FreeBSD has mistakenly included as part os the base > system monolith. OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and the resolver library > are three examples that leap lithely to mind. Terry, it's simple to not have to reboot. Many ports already do this, but a 'ldconfig -R' tells it to re-scan the known directories to pickup new entries, which can be done at any time (as root of course). Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message