[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: LinuxThreads...



Michael Alan Dorman writes:
> david@elo.sw.ods.com (David Engel) writes:
> > Put it in /usr/lib for now.  We can always move it later if needed.
> 
> Um, will dpkg do that correctly?
> 
> Say Malcolm Beattie hacks Perl to have threads support, and so perl
> ends up depending on libpthread0, won't ldconfig get terribly confused
> if you move the library to a different directory, thereby rendering
> perl unusable for some period of time?

Don't worry.  Ld.so will be able to find it.  It falls back to looking
in both /usr/lib and /lib if a library can't be found normally.

David
-- 
David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
david@ods.com                      1001 E. Arapaho Road
(972) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com


Reply to: