Subject: /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so (Was: lfs_cleanerd(8) needs /usr)
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/2007 14:11:44
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 17:18:50 +0900, Kouichirou Hiratsuka wrote:

> The lfs_cleanerd(8) needs /usr to run because it's using
> /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so.  I think it should use /libexec/ld.elf_so.
> Is the following patch correct?
> 
> best regards.
> -- 
>  Kouichirou Hiratsuka
>    hira@po6.nsk.ne.jp
> 
> Index: bsd.shlib.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/share/mk/bsd.shlib.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.5
> diff -u -r1.5 bsd.shlib.mk
> --- bsd.shlib.mk	11 Nov 2006 14:41:20 -0000	1.5
> +++ bsd.shlib.mk	22 Aug 2007 08:02:42 -0000
> @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
>  .endif
>  
>  .if ${MKDYNAMICROOT} == "no" || \
> -    (${BINDIR:Ux} != "/bin" && ${BINDIR:Ux} != "/sbin")
> +    (${BINDIR:Ux} != "/bin" && ${BINDIR:Ux} != "/sbin" && \
> +     ${BINDIR:Ux} != "/libexec" )
>  SHLINKDIR?=	/usr/libexec
>  .else
>  SHLINKDIR?=	/libexec

Hmm, I've been always wondering, why we bother with
/usr/libexec/ld.elf_so at all, it's symlink to /libexec anyway.

Does anyone knows/remembers the rationale?

SY, Uwe
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