On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:01:23 -0700 
 "Terry R. Friedrichsen" <terry@venus.sunquest.com> wrote:

 > 2)  there *is* one in src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/ldconfig; however, it appears to be
 > 	incomplete and isn't for the pmax anyway, to judge by the Makefile

It's not incomplete.  It is for NetBSD a.out shared libraries.

 > 3)  however, the "make build" *did* take the trouble to install the GNU
 > 	ldconfig's man page ldconfig.8; that'd be OK except that the man
 > 	page doesn't match up with the ldconfig on the snapshot :-)

It's installed because manual pages are MI - they go into /usr/share.

 > 4)  finally, the GNU ldconfig Makefile defines BINDIR as /sbin, but the
 > 	sources are in usr.bin, which seems inconsistent

...it is there because it is closely related to the linker.

You'll note that the in-tree Elf dynamic linker (ld.elf_so) does not
include an ldconfig; GNU's Elf ld.so uses one, but it's a notion not
really inherent in the SVR4 specification of it.

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