Re: ld.so question (fwd)

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From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 21:09:50 EST

On Jan 26, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

>>
>> 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?

Nope, it will run ldconfig in all systems that (we know that) have it,
despite LD_RUN_PATH or -rpath, because ldconfig is supposed to speed
up loading of shared libraries on them. 

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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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