Subject: Re: static vs. dynamic runtime linking, again (was: PAM and su -K)
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/24/2005 17:18:04
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, der Mouse wrote:

> >>> The conclusion is that their authors should just forget
> >>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH + /etc/ld.so.conf and repair their build
> >>> frameworks.
> >> And just what do you think I should do to "repair" my build
> >> "framework" - which you, NetBSD, not I, broke?!
> > NetBSD didn't break anything;
>
> It used to work on older NetBSD.  It doesn't work on current NetBSD.
>
> That's the sense in which NetBSD broke it.

NetBSD used to ship with an /etc/ld.so.conf that listed an /usr/X11R6/lib
entry. Even after it was no longer shipped, many used it the same.


 Jeremy C. Reed

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