Bug#301455: ldd no longer puts a => before /bin/ld-linux.so.2

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:15:59 +0200,
George Cristian Birzan wrote:
> Output on experimental machine:
> gcbirzan@loki:~$ ldd /bin/bash
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f93000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f90000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e75000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fea000)
> 
> Output on sid machine:
> gcbirzan@odin:~$ ldd /bin/bash
>                 libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001e000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x4005d000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40061000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> So far, this hit me in the face by breaking mkinitrd but it will also
> break other scripts which depend on that.

I expect you to explain why mkinitrd breaks with new ldd.

> Fixing mkinitrd would be relatively easy, I guess, since I fixed mine,
> but there may be other scripts which depend on this behaviour.

But this argument does not become the exact reason to modify ldd.  I
think tools should be followed because the behavior of ldd is not
standardized.

Regards,
-- gotom