From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 1 10:49:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01618 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:49:30 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA01612 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:49:28 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA09538; Mon, 1 May 95 11:42:16 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505011742.AA09538@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: new dynamic libraries from ports To: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier) Date: Mon, 1 May 95 11:42:15 MDT Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505010902.LAA11250@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at May 1, 95 11:02:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >This has come up before. ldconfig needs two things: > > > >1. An option for "refreshing" its internal path. > >2. An option for adding a directory to that path. 3. an option for deleting a directory from the path. > So, ldconfig need to remember its last call (without -a). This > means that a line need to be added in ld.so.hints > e.g > # /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib > > where # looks like a comment line for ld.so which should of course walk > over this line. Since dups are eliminated, the last command would be the current set; this state should be available without that line in the hints file. On the other hand, this is starting to look a lot like the problem that is solved by xset. 8-). To set the font path: fp= path[,path...] To restore the default font path: fp default To have the server reread font databases: fp rehash To remove elements from font path: -fp path[,path...] fp- path[,path...] To prepend or append elements to font path: +fp path[,path...] fp+ path[,path...] Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.