Re: X package shared library problem
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote:
> > Can this be considered to be a bug in ldconfig?
>
> Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it?
>
> The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed
> by ld as long as I'm maintaining it.
Deleting something that you are not responsible for creating is probably
not a good idea.
> I'm open to suggestions on how to correct the former problem. What
> I'm leaning towards is to have ldconfig continue to remove dangling
> libfoo.so.* links but not libfoo.so links.
That sounds sensible.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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