Re: ld.so question (fwd)

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 20:31:38 EST

>
> On Jan 26, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Godmar> Suppose you download Kaffe and you don't have a package for it and
> Godmar> you do a --prefix=/opt/kaffe and you run as root: should it run
> Godmar> ldconfig -m or not?
> >>
> >> That's what LD_RUN_PATH is for.
>
> libtool does use LD_RUN_PATH or equivalent in systems that support
> it. It only runs ldconfig to update the shared libraries cache, in
> order to speed up the loading of such libraries.
>

Does that mean that on systems that do support LD_RUN_PATH, libtool
will not ldconfig?

        - Godmar

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