Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:17:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, kaleb@x.org
Subject:   Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI)
Message-ID:  <199601092317.AAA02051@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601091925.LAA13967@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Jan 9, 96 11:25:45 am

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As John Polstra wrote:
> 
> I've been listening lurkingly to this discussion about RPATH vs.
> ldconfig.  What strikes me about the argument is that both sides
> are right.
> 
> Kaleb is right -- RPATH is good and useful.  J"org is right --
> ldconfig is good and useful.  They don't have to be mutually
> exclusive, you know.

That's been about my conclusion, after an ongoing discussion with
Kaleb in private mail.  (Kaleb seems to be tired of it now?)

I've been missing ldconfig in SVR4, and i'm sure i would have been
missing RPATH if i were used to it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199601092317.AAA02051>