On Sun, 17 May 1998 23:56:38 -0400 
 nm <nmanisca@vt.edu> wrote:

 > why is there no ldconfig?

Heh, this has been hashed out quite a lot on other mailing lists, but
the short answer is:

	Because ELF shared library search semantics are different
	than a.out shared library search semantics.

ldconfig builds a hints database which is unnecessary (and many would
say undesirable) for ELF.

 > can i use /etc/ld.so.conf to specify a search path for where
 > various shared libs are hidden?  are there alternatives to this?

Right now, you use -rpath for the linker at link time, like SVR4 (the
origin of ELF).

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