Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:01:09PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> writes:
> > Yes, it should. In this case, imagine GNU libc 3 comes out, Debian
> > decides to migrate to it, and libraries linked against glibc 2 are
> > moved to /usr/i386-glibc2-linux/lib or what not.
>
> Aha, I didn't realize there was that kind of black magic in ld.so
> (documented in ldconfig). Well, then I'd venture that ld.so is
> imperfect. If it knows to ignore certain paths in ld.so.conf, it
When does it ignore paths in ld.so.conf?
If your binary contains a hard path to /lib/libc.so.6, and then we
move that library to /usr/i386-glibc2-linux/lib instead because
libc.so.7 is available, your binary will no longer work.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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