Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes: > The Hurds ldconfig is just a link to /bin/true, to make Debian postinst > scripts happy. I don't know why ldconfig is needed on Linux, it is not > required on the Hurd, as all packages are required to have appropriate > symlinks. Oh, and these symlinks have to be maintained by hand? What's the point? FWIW, I've seen packages generate the symlinks in debian/$PKG/usr/lib with the help of "ldconfig -n". These will silently break when built on the Hurd. > Now, if the symlink in the package is wrong, we have to fix that. AFAICS the original poster just got confused because he had libc0.2 2.1.3-x and libc0.2-dev 2.2-3 installed at the same time (a situation that the dependencies allow). -- Robbe
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