Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:36:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:57:28AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > 2) we could try to use the ldconfig cache to make to work of ldd for
> > >    ourself.
> > >    Questions: - Is this really an advantage? Or has the cache the same
> > >                 problems ldd has?
> 
> Hmm.  In theory, ldconfig shouldn't require the ability to execute 64-bit
> binaries in order to build a cache of their paths.  The only thing I don't
> know is how 64-bit vs. 32-bit libs are cached?  It would after all have to
> be possible to distinguish between them in order to use the cache for this.

It is possible:
djpig@feynman:~$ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep libbz2.so.1.0
        libbz2.so.1.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0
        libbz2.so.1.0 (libc6) => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0

Might still be a mess to parse all those architecture specific names,
though...

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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