Subject: Re: How does a ELF system find libs at runtime?
To: Thorsten Frueauf <s_frueau@ira.uka.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/04/1999 08:41:30
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
: Ok, I guess we need to always provide that to pkgs then. We seem to
: set that as LDFLAGS in bsd.pkg.mk, but this seems not always go its
: way to the build env...
It normally does, but:
: > Then there's something wrong with the X11R6 imake configuration.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(for mips. xlockmore uses imake, not our LDFLAGS.)
: > This is reinventing ld.so.conf, which we are trying to avoid. The intent is
: > to make X11 and pkgsrc completely nondependent on such crutches. ;)
:
: I know that... but still this would help as fallback to make live
: easier. At least /usr/local seems to be in there...
I won't continue a debate on this subject. I'm deliberately agnostic. :-P
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