On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:09:12AM -0800, walt wrote: > I'm confused about the use of these two mechanisms for finding > shared libraries: the FreeBSD way seems to be to add the > /usr/local/lib directory to ld-elf.so.hints, but the NetBSD > way is to use the rpath mechanism for /usr/pkg/lib/*.so
The ld-elf.so.hints mechanisms is a horrible artefact from a.out days. ldconfig should serve only one point in an ELF world: system and compat libraries. > This causes problems when a pkgsrc library is linked without > the usual rpath (by accident, I assume) e.g. the cdparanoia > package I just built on DF. cdparanoia is linked fine here. Do you have a current libtool? Joerg
