Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:47:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809010942190.353-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199809010415.OAA23562@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, John Birrell wrote: > If you haven't already done so, edit /etc/rc and change the _LDC line > to reference /usr/lib/aout instead of /usr/lib. Once you do that and > re-run ldconfig (or just reboot), your aout libraries will function > normally (they are deprecated, though). I'm a little confused. I did the upgrade, but I'd had the _LDC pointing to /usr/lib/aout beforehand, because that's where the new libs were being put. The upgrade seemed to stick new aout libs in /usr/lib/aout, but also put new libs in /usr/lib. File doesn't tell me if the ones in /usr/lib are ELF or not, but from the timestamp on those (which is a few minutes after the timestamp on the /usr/lib/aout ones) I suspect that they are. If my system is now ELF, why the advice to add /usr/lib/aout to my _LDC? Especially since I had already had /usr/lib/aout replacing /usr/lib in the _LDC, shouldn't I take the "/aout" off now that I've upgraded? Oddly enough, I checked one of my new executeables in /usr/bin, and ldd tells me that it's linked to libs in /usr/lib, even tho /usr/lib itself isn't on my _LDC line. I'm a little confused by this. > > ldconfig will die with aout. ELF does not need hints since it handles > just a single version number of a library and knowing that can go straight > to the library name. > > /usr/lib is the normal place for system libraries, so the elf versions > belong there. You don't need to make any links in /usr/lib. In fact you > should just stick with what the build process puts there. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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