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Date:      Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:06:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Jason Godsey <godsey@godsey.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig: WARNING! '/usr/lib' can not be used
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628190616.308G-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980629104133.D897@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Sunday, 28 June 1998 at 17:35:38 -0700, Jason Godsey wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> >> Why am I getting this?  I've checked through the man page for some sort of
> >> explanation, as well as checked permissions against
> >> /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist, and all looks okay...
> >>
> >>> ldconfig -m /usr/lib
> >> ldconfig: WARNING! '/usr/lib' can not be used
> >
> > if you update rc from /usr/src/etc it indexes /usr/lib/aout instead :)
> 
> I still think this is tacky.  I can understand the background, but
> there should be another way to do this.  What's the long-term goal?
> /usr/lib/aout and /usr/lib/elf?  Even then, I can't see any reason to
> exclude directories from the ldconfig search.

Last I checked, ldconfig is an a.out program only. So what good would it
do to have it index elf directories?

- alex

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