Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> : > : src/distrib/sets/lists/base/md.pmax
> : > :     (simonb - Mon Mar 29 03:10:08 UTC 1999)
> : > :     Put ./usr/libexec/ld.so back - it's used for backwards compatibility
> : > :     with early ELF binaries.
> : > 
> : > This is part of the compat13 pkg I'm about to commit.  Please revert.
> : 
> : Before I do this, one question.  From looking at the package, the old
> : compat libraries get installed in ${PREFIX}/lib.  Under ELF, how will
> : old programs know to look in ${PREFIX}/lib for these libraries?
> 
> This was an issue I was going to bring up on tech-pkg to get a concensus.  
> I may end up having the pkg create symlinks for the .so.MAJOR in /usr/lib to
> ${LOCALBASE}/lib to make ELF systems happy, as ELF has no notion of
> `ld.so.conf'.

Sounds like the only option so far...

> : If this does indeed work (I haven't actually tested it), do you also
> : want a pull-up on the 1.4 branch?
> 
> The ld.so change is unrelated to the location of the compat libraries; it
> should be pulled up regardless.  No port should ship with `compatibility'
> binaries (yah, I know, it's the same binary with a different name, but it's
> still a deviation from the standard).

Duh!  Of course this has nothing to do with library locations :-)

I've removed ld.so from the set list and changed ld.elf_so's pmax
Makefile to not link to it as well, and sent pull-up requests.

Simon.