From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 17:49:18 EST
Godmar Back writes:
> Jeff says:
>
> You think it would ask first, wouldnt you? From the "security" section
> of the man page:
>
> "In addition to building a set of hints for quick lookup, [ldconfig]
> also serves to specify the trusted collection of directories from
> which shared objects can be safely loaded."
>
> Dave says:
>
> I'm with Jeff here. It should prompt the user before running
> anything which changes a system-wide parameter such as the ldconfig
> path. Alternately, it should support a separate target, "make
> touchup" which does the sensitive parts of the install.
Or.. why can't it just put whatever directories are needed in
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable that's set in the kaffe script?
Or am I missing something?
-Archie
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