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Re: PATCH: ldconfig.c considers ld.so.conf entries before /lib,/usr/lib
- To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: ldconfig.c considers ld.so.conf entries before /lib,/usr/lib
- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:52:26 -0500
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>, Camm Maguire <camm at enhanced dot com>
- References: <15245.45665.961678.23004@sonny.eddelbuettel.com><m3lmk25igl.fsf@otr.mynet>
Ulrich> It's completely irrelevant what the man pages say.
Yes, that was purely anecdotal.
Ulrich> The current way ldconfig works is how it worked ever since. There
Ulrich> is no reason to change it since this will have negative effects and
Ulrich> might suddenly change the behavior of people's systems.
That is a lingering concern I had too.
Ulrich> If you depend on the order ldconfig searches directories you are
Ulrich> doing something wrong. This is no tool to resolve conflicts.
Not a conflict. Atlas' libblas.so is a drop-in replacement for the standard
libblas.so.
But if it doesn't fly ... we will have to stick with shell wrappers. Pity.
Dirk