Package: libc-bin Version: 2.13-35 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
i'm using debian as my primary development platform. this means that i often build custom libraries, that are installed into /usr/local/lib/ traditionally, /usr/local/lib/ will be searched before /usr/lib/, which is great as it allows to override system (distro) defaults. unfortunately this is no longer the case, since the advent of multiarch support in debian: most lib<package>s will no longer install into /usr/lib/ but instead into /usr/lib/<triplet>/ (which is good). this however means, that the standard installation of libraries will override the installation in /usr/local, since the default ld.so.config is: $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf # Multiarch support /lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /lib/i486-linux-gnu /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu # libc default configuration /usr/local/lib # Legacy biarch compatibility support /lib64 /usr/lib64 the files installed in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ are: $ ls /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ i486-linux-gnu.conf libc.conf zz_amd64-biarch-compat.conf these files are included in alphabetical order, and most files here are named in some meaningful way (without ordering in mind), with the noteable exception of the biarch-compat file. this basically makes the order of search-paths *arbitrary*! however, since order _does_ of search-paths does matter, i would suggest to adapat a scheme similar to all the other configuration where a bunch of files are included and order matters: prefix the filename with a numeric ID, that makes sorting obvious and explicit. something like: 20_libc.conf 50_i486-linux-gnu.conf 99_amd-biarch-compat.conf -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
