Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:01:02AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:35:08PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Maybe we should define the default directories that every ld.so.conf file
> > should contain - /lib /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib - and mark every other
/lib and /usr/lib are always included implicitly, unless ldconfig is
told not to include them.
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:15:19AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> /lib/ld-linux.so. ld.so is used for a.out binaries and ld-linux.so
> for ELF binaries. I presume there is no equivalent distinction on
That's correct, but not complete. More specifically, ld-linux.so.1 is
for libc5 and ld-linux.so is for libc6.
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:11:13PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> No, we simply use the ld.so from glibc. It would be great if Linux could
> also drop the special ld-linux.so and aim at a merger with glibc (I thought
> this was already attempted in the past, seems my memory is at fault).
ld-linux.so.* was chosen so it would not conflict with other systems.
This makes it easier setup emulations of other systems on Linux and
vice versa. It's not worth changing.
David
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