Subject: re: /etc/rc.d/ldconfig, ELF and a.out
To: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-misc
Date: 06/04/2004 12:38:22
For ELF systems there does not seem to be much point in running
/etc/rc.d/ldconfig to generate the 'a.out runtime link editor
directory cache'. At the very least there should be an rcvar
for it, and I would suggest defaulting it to 'off'.
The only port that is still a.out is pc532, which is stuck at
1.5.3 anyway.
Would anyone have any objections to such a change?
hmmm. perhaps the default should depend on whether something is
in /emul/aout/usr/lib or not? ie, this feature *is* useful for
people running a.out binaries and turning this off by default may
cause weirdness for them.
is there an actual problem here?