On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:01:02AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:35:08PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Maybe we should define the default directories that every ld.so.conf file > > should contain - /lib /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib - and mark every other
/lib and /usr/lib are always included implicitly, unless ldconfig is told not to include them. On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:15:19AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > /lib/ld-linux.so. ld.so is used for a.out binaries and ld-linux.so > for ELF binaries. I presume there is no equivalent distinction on That's correct, but not complete. More specifically, ld-linux.so.1 is for libc5 and ld-linux.so is for libc6. On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:11:13PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > No, we simply use the ld.so from glibc. It would be great if Linux could > also drop the special ld-linux.so and aim at a merger with glibc (I thought > this was already attempted in the past, seems my memory is at fault). ld-linux.so.* was chosen so it would not conflict with other systems. This makes it easier setup emulations of other systems on Linux and vice versa. It's not worth changing. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
