From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 11 18:32:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19678 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:32:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19633; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 18:31:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA22961; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:00:50 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808120130.LAA22961@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: nik@iii.co.uk cc: Amancio Hasty , Alex , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Joseph Koshy , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 Schedule, ELF and CAM In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:38:46 +0100." <19980811093846.A11516@iii.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:00:50 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 11:02:48PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > If not "/usr/lib", where would you like your elf libs to go to? > /usr/lib.elf and /usr/lib.aout, with /usr/lib being a symlink to whichever > one is the current default on the system. > This is probably a frighteningly bad idea, but every time I've mentioned > it on -hackers or -current, no one's stood up to say so. That's a bit limiting.. Since you can use both types of libs, why limit youself? I would think that in most cases ldconfig /usr/lib/ would be a better solution. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | ---------------------------------------------------------------------