Subject: Re: When is the next release or snapshot due?
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/06/1997 00:42:47
On Fri Jun  6 00:36:56 1997, Mike Long wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:16:47 -0700
> >From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> 
> >Another file just begging to be split out is the list of directories
> >for ldconfig.  Xi Graphics has asked us if we'd be so kind as to
> >implement Linux's /etc/rc.ld.so file (which contains a list of dirs to
> >look for libraries in, one per line) and so far I can't say that it's
> >a bad idea.  I generally hate following anything that Linux has done,
> >but this one seems sort of reasonable. :-)
> 
> NetBSD already has something like this.  If /etc/ld.so.conf exists,
> then its contents are used as arguments when /etc/rc runs ldconfig.
> The format is identical to Linux's rc.ld.so; directory pathnames, one
> per line.
> 
> AFAIK ld.so.conf isn't documented anywhere; you have to RTFS to learn
> about it.

No, it is documented: LD.SO.CONF(5)

Bernd