Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/26/1997 17:19:04
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:44:59 +1000
Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> wrote:
> > Modified Files:
> > rc
> > Log Message:
> > ldconfig processes /etc/ld.so.conf internally; run it without cat'ing
> > the contents into an argument vector.
>
> I think this is semi bad for netbsd/pmax, since we're still using
> a really old ldconfig whose source isn't in the tree. I'm running
> -current as of about a week ago (I do regular `make build's), yet my
> ldconfig is dated June 4, 1996. Obviously the correct fix is to have
> an ldconfig in the tree that works on /pmax - Jonathan may be more up
> to date on this.
NetBSD/pmax won't be any better or worse for this change. When NetBSD's
MIPS port start using the already-in-tree ld.elf_so, ldconfig won't be
needed, since Elf isn't even supposed to have such a notion as a hints
file, like a.out libs do.
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