Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 23:17:38 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <19990204231738.T28430@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <36B99FD3.41C67EA6@ics.com>; from Kaleb S. KEITHLEY on Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:25:40AM -0500 References: <199901311851.KAA07228@vashon.polstra.com> <199902040322.TAA18413@vashon.polstra.com> <36B99FD3.41C67EA6@ics.com>
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On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: >John Polstra wrote: >> >> In article <36B700D2.41C67EA6@ics.com>, >> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kaleb@ics.com> wrote: >> > >> > ldconfig for ELF should just go away. >> >> Feel free to remove it from your system. > >Wrong solution to the problem. > >> It's not going to go away in >> FreeBSD any time soon. You witnessed the outcry when I tried to argue >> against it months ago. > >Non sequitur. ldconfig is redundant at best, presents a minor security >risk, and the last time I tried it allowed for demonstrably incorrect or >unexpected behavior. > >System admins who think they know better be damned -- they're not >supporting the products they're breaking. If someone calls up and tells >me they installed my product somewhere other than where the install was >supposed to put it, tried to kludge it with ldconfig, and now the >product doesn't work correctly, the first thing I'm going to tell them >is to reinstall it in the correct, supported, location and let the >program's RPATH and ld.so do what they're supposed to do. Having experienced both sides of this, what I think would be good would be to be able to edit the RPATH in executables. That would allow the sysadmin to override it selectively. I don't know if that is feasible or not. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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