Re: the move to stublib

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >   o /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf is read-only by default, and ocaml-ldconf
> >     knows how to change that when it updates it. This may not be sure, as
> >     they may be race conditions, if some other package writes to it at the
> >     same time as ocaml-ldconf. I could fix this by writting to another
> >     file and copying it over or something such.
> >     Alternatively, i could also patch ocaml so the file is named
> >     debian_ld.conf or something such, and don't need to worry for it to
> >     be read-only.
> 
> Why do you need to have ld.conf read-only? who is supposed to write on
> it, other than ocaml-ldconf?

Broken third party installed stuff, and then they wonder why the hand
installed library don't find the dll.so after they upgrade any debian
library package.

See previous mails in this mailing list about it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther