Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 01:35:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: jdp@polstra.com, taob@risc.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF? Message-ID: <199809030135.SAA04006@usr07.primenet.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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