On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:21:52AM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
>   I just noticed today that there's no ldconfig on my sparc64 -current
> machine.  And, after reading the man page more carefully, I see that
> ldconfig is/was an a.out shared library tool.  So, on my all-ELF system,
> it makes some sense that I don't have it.  But, if I don't have it, why
> do I still have a /etc/rc.d/ldconfig, and the man pages in both roff
> and rendered forms?
> 
>   Anyone know of any reason those aren't excised?

backwards compatibility ( e.g. linux, etc. )

jb13