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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 03:28:03 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@backplane.com
Subject:   Re: /usr/lib/compat/aout not being scanned?
Message-ID:  <199809171728.DAA23076@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>    Even better, though I know people are going to hate this:  Have the
>    ldconfig program automatically look for an 'aout' subdirectory (and add
>    an option to disable the 'feature') so user's original /etc/rc files will
>    still work.

Yes, they are.  gcc does something like this, and it is very confusing.
IIRC, it appends /aout for builtin paths but not for paths in
$LIBRARY_PATH.  It only appends /aout if the aout subdirectory exists.
In some configurations, it then overrides the linker's possibly better
idea of the paths by passing the paths that it finds as -L options.

Bruce



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