Bug#473458: manpages-dev: dlopen man page contradicts ld.so(8)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:48:46PM +0300, ygrek wrote:
> > > 
> > >> man dlopen says :
> > >>   Otherwise,  the
> > >>   dynamic  linker  searches for the library as follows (see ld.so(8) for
> > >>   further details):
> > >>   [...]
> > >>   o   The directories /lib and /usr/lib are searched (in that order).
> > >>
> > >> and man ld.so :
> > >>   The necessary shared libraries needed by the program are searched  for
> > >>   in the following order
> > >>   [...]
> > >>   o      In the default path /usr/lib, and then /lib.
> > >>
> > >> so what is searched first - /usr/lib or /lib?
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > But I think it's sufficiently accurate to say that the /lib heirarchy
> > > is searched before that of /usr/lib, so ld.so.8 is wrong, thus
> > > reassigning.
> > 
> > This correct.  NOTE: this bad text is in a Debian downstream patch.  The
> > usptream page is  correct on this point (and has been forever, AFAICS)
> 
> Oops!  Will fix.

I stand corrected, I cannot fix this.  The version of ld.so.8 comes from
the libc6 package and not from the manpages package as one might assume.

As the package has been reassigned already nothing needs to be done on
my end I guess.

Regards,

	Joey

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