On Dec 13,  8:26am, apb@cequrux.com (Alan Barrett) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: ld_elf.so proposal for selecting hw/dependent libraries

| On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > For example ld.so.conf could contain:
| > 
| >     m	fpu_present	0:msoft	1:m387
| 
| I'd prefer to see
| 
|      libm	fpu_present	0:libmsoft 1:libm387
| 
| with the "lib" part of the name explicitly mentioned.  When people
| talk about libraries, they usually say "libc", "libm", "libmalloc",
| etc., and the file syntax should do the same if it is to be easy to
| use.

actually the final implementation calls for:

libm.so.0	fpu_present	0:libmsoft.so.0 1:libm387.so.0

[I finished coding it an hour ago...]

christos