Re: Processed: Cloning this bug

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> reopen 388489
> thanks
>
> Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> writes:
>
> > Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit :
> > > > retitle -1 libc6-i386: Missing /etc.ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu.conf
> > There is no need for such a file. ld.so natively looks on all
> > directories of bi (or tri)-arches directories. If you need to be
> > convinced just run: strings /sbin/ldconfig | grep "^/lib"
> >
> > Clising the bug
>
> Binutils doesn't. And in some cases binutils looks at ld.so.conf and
It does. Well it was not the case on amd64, but it has been fixed two 
months ago in version 2.17-2 (see bug#369052).

I am closing the bug, please only reopen the bug if you have a testcase 
to show what you claim.

> thus ld.so.conf.d/*.
>
> Or what is the point of the ld.so.conf.d files at all?

The purpose of the ld.so.conf.d files is to provide an easy way to add 
search directories for some packages (eg atlas), which is a lot easier 
than modifying the ld.so.conf directly.

It is also a way for future multiarch support to add a search path, 
hence the /etc.ld.so.conf.d/(host-triplet).conf in libc6. But it has 
nothing to do with bi-arch or tri-arch which are directly handled in the 
toolchain.

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