Hi.

> However, it cannot find the shared object files at runtime.  I updated
> /etc/ld.so.conf, but I couldn't do anything with it, since I couldn't
> find ldconfig anywhere.  Well, I found it in the source tree, but it
> wouldn't compile for me. 

I think your answer can be found in;

	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#ELF

You will find a section titled with

	"There is no ldconfig! No /etc/ld.so.conf!"

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of science and Technology