Subject: Re: How does a ELF system find libs at runtime?
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/04/1999 14:22:20
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> Yes, this means that if you move your libraries and make them
> unavailable via the old name you have to fix your binaries.  Some
> systems have separate programs to "re-point" the library paths to
> the right target; so far NetBSD is not among those systems.

And just to start the whole mess again:
I think it would be better to scan some ld.so cache (if the
compiled in path doesn't work) than to fail. 


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>