Well, now that some of pkgsrc properly uses the `rpath' feature of ld, I've
found out a neat little hidden feature of a.out platforms -- and if I looked
closely at the Mozilla build process, I'd have seen it.  a.out platforms
_do_ properly support rpath semantics, even under 1.3.x (where the option is
-R to ld).  So, if pkgs are fixed to use rpath, they will work on a.out
without /usr/pkg/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf.  `Neato.'

I imagine this could be fixed in the imake stuff for X, as well.  I'll look
into doing that.

Now, not that this says that "ld.so.conf is a good idea to add for backwards
compatibility in ELF," it does rather shoot a hole in the main counter
argument that ld.so.conf is the "hack that exists because a.out has no
rpath."  :-)

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)