Subject: Re: ld_elf.so proposal for selecting hw/dependent libraries
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/12/1999 14:37:57
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:25:45 -0500
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> Yes, they are all normalized to strings [so I can use simpler data structures]
>
> | I'm thinking of the Alpha case again, here. We can't just key off
> | "21164" ... BWX appears in "21164A" (EV56), "21164PC" (PCA56), and
> | "21264" (EV6).
>
> Good point.
Actually... what if we called the file something else? Like /etc/ld.so.libs?
My reasoning is this: ld.so.conf is pretty much the same across all platforms
right now. But it'd be nice to allow each port to ship its own ld.so.libs
(src/etc/etc.<machine_arch>?).
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>