Subject: Re: Please advice me to use the X.
To: Jim Wise <jim@santafe.arch.columbia.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/07/1996 11:51:13
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Jim Wise wrote:

> Actually, it is crucial that the line be
> 
> 	ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib
> 		^^^^
> 
> or you'll nuke your link cache.  without the `-m', ldconfig will cache hints
> for the given directory _instead_ of the existing hints, which is definitely
> _not_ what you want...

This isn't a problem if you only use ldconfig to add a single directory
(it sets up the standard hints by default).  However, the -m flag is
certainly more correct. :-)  Thanks for straightening me out.

--scott