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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?
To: joelh@gnu.org
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:35:12 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: jdp@polstra.com, taob@risc.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199809022313.SAA09819@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Sep 2, 98 06:13:42 pm
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> > You specify the search path at _link_ time with LD_RUN_PATH or the
> > "-R" linker option.  The path is saved in the executable or shared
> > library itself.
> 
> How is this a win?  Say I'm taking a binary from somebody who
> installed libXpm in /usr/X11R6/lib, and didn't have a /usr/local/lib,
> which is where my libXpm resides.

The path is saved in a seperate section.

You are free to rewrite this section during install, using an ELF
image archiver.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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