Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%nas.nasa.gov@localhost>]

On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:44:59 +1000 
 Simon Burge <simonb%telstra.com.au@localhost> 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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