Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] ld.so.8: some improvements from Debian

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Jonathan,

This patch series fell on the floor. Are you interested in having
another go? If yes, let's discuss some details first.

Cheers,

Michael


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to see Debian using the ld.so(8) page from the man-pages
> project instead of its own custom copy, so people making improvements
> to that documentation would not need to choose which to contribute to.
> Here are some changes that might make it easier to use the upstream
> ld.so.8 as a drop-in replacement.
>
> I have tried to be very conservative, when in doubt matching what is
> in Debian's libc-bin package.  Some comments on this in the mails with
> each patch.
>
> Anyway, some of these seem to me like good improvements to the page
> regardless.  What do you think?
>
> Jonathan Nieder (6):
>  ld.so.8: clarify synopsis
>  ld.so.8: move important information toward the top
>  ld.so.8: document LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
>  ld.so.8: document Debian's /etc/ld.so.nohwcap extension
>  ld.so.8: document $PLATFORM and $LIB expansion
>  ld.so.8: document how hwcaps affect search path
>
>  man8/ld.so.8 |  181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
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