Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/21/05 23:04 CST: > Programs like login use PAM and must have the PAM libraries available > even if /usr is not mounted, so the .so files must be available in /lib. > Symlinks within or to /lib are ok.
It is my understanding that the .so files, like the .a files are only used for linking during compilation of other programs. For instance, in LFS the shadow package installs all the libs in /lib, but the .so files are removed and resymlinked in /usr/lib. The .a files are moved to /usr/lib. To me, there's no difference in the shadow libs and the pam libs. They're both required for login, even if /usr is not mounted. -- Randy rmlinux: [GNU ld version 2.15.91.0.2 20040727] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.1] [GNU C Library 2004-07-01 release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.8.1 i686] 23:16:00 up 16 days, 7:05, 8 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.09 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
