On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 07:06:51AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:51:32PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
>  > In fact, I wondered that a little, too.
> 
> Really, the search path stuff shouldn't even be there.  ELF has rpath to
> encode the path to the library so that you don't have to do an expensive
> path search (a.out didn't have rpath, and thus had the expensive path search).
> 
> However, some people apparently Really Wanted to have the search path
> functionality in ld.elf_so (because they were apparently incapable of
> building their binaries with the correct options to set the rpath), and
> so it went in.  Some of us (including me) would like to see the ld.so.conf
> search path functionality ripped out completely (keeping the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> functionality -- it's cheap and easy to skip that by caching the getenv()
> result and checking for NULL).

I completely agree. BTW, if we removed it who would object to that?

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>