On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:57:28 -0500 
 nm <nmanisca@vt.edu> wrote:

 > This may be a silly question but why does the sparc port have
 > ldconfig and the alpha port does not?

Because the Alpha port uses ELF.  When the SPARC port switches to
ELF, it won't use ldconfig, either.

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