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Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath



On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:00:44AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> ldconfig generates ld.so.cache.  ld.so.cache is used by ld.so to know
> which paths should be used.  Please note that this filtering mechanism
> is crucial when RPATH isn't used, since there is only one ordering of
> paths for all binaries.  (This filtering is not done on RPATH
> currently.  That feature won't be necessary until libc actually
> changes major version.)

OK, I see. As long as no binaries have hard-coded paths (RPATH)
to libc, why would ldconfig need to change?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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