From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 08:18:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04927 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04922 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taob@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01861; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:17:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:16:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca To: FREEBSD-CURRENT Subject: Why no ldconfig for ELF? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've seen it mentioned dozens of times that ldconfig is deprecated with our move to ELF, but I don't think anyone explained why. How does ELF know where to find libraries then? Surely we don't have to depend on setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib and whatever other local library paths? Solaris requires this, and it's been a big pain in the rear. Besides, a globally-enforced library search path seems to be much more secure than allowing users to specify their own. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message