Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 13:32:43 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: jabley@clear.co.nz Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF ldconfig Message-ID: <199809192032.NAA02450@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19980920042741.A6144@clear.co.nz> References: <19980920042741.A6144@clear.co.nz>
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In article <19980920042741.A6144@clear.co.nz>,
Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> wrote:
> The ELF hints file is built by sbin/ldconfig/elfhints.c, which is very
> particular about the files in the search path it will include - for
> example, in /usr/local/lib, libslang.so.1.2.2 is built by the slang port,
> but no link under the name libslang.so.1 is present.
It is intentional that the ELF ldconfig ignores libraries with more
than one version number. The problem you're seeing is simply caused
by the fact that the libslang port hasn't been updated yet for ELF.
See the conversion guidelines for more details:
http://www.freebsd.org/~asami/elf-guidelines.txt
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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