Re: ldconfig

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 19:51:57 EST


On Jan 26, 1999, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:

>> 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?

libtool already arranges that the proper library path is hard-coded
into any programs linked with it. The issue here is that, when the
*library* is installed, libtool runs ldconfig on some systems to
arrange that the new version of the library enters the ld.so library
cache, to speed things up.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil


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