In article <200503241613.j2OGDhg5004502@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca>,
	jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
>      No, Solaris requires it as well.  Given how long it has been
> required I'm surprised at the number of Makefiles that I have to
> modify.

The reason is that Linux went the wrong way and supported "ld.so.conf"
for ELF so all those Linux developers had not to learn using "-R"
properly.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/