On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:00, Roland McGrath wrote: > Earlier in the day I was moved by the plight of a developer trying to > figure out exactly how his rpm postinstall/postuninstall scripts should > edit /etc/ld.so.conf for the directories they install libraries in. > I think a good answer is that they shouldn't have to do that. > > I just implemented an `include' feature with globbing in ldconfig's > configuration file parsing. (This will be in an unspecified future glibc > rpm coming to you in rawhide in the fullness of time.) I propose that in > future the canonical /etc/ld.so.conf contain just: > > include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf imho people should use rpath if they need to install libraries in non standard locations.. -- Nils Olav Selåsdal System Engineer w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
