Subject: Re: We have a problem...need some help on this one...
From: David Huggins-Daines (dhd@linuxcare.com)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 10:44:46 PDT
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> writes:
> Over the past week, I've been attempting to find a version of ldconfig
> that actually works as advertised on Alpha. Well, what I concluded
> was...there isn't one. The current implementation in the ld.so package
> loves 32-bit ELF, but has no clue about 64-bit ELF. This is what's been
Wow, great.
> breaking the ncpfs package compilation all of this time (ldconfig can't
> read the SONAME out of the library, so it doesn't set up links). Doing
> ALOT of debugging on ldconfig shows that it's really not doing anything
> for us at all.
I've always wondered what the use of ldconfig was really ... if it's
just to make soname links then it's fairly useless since we already do
that in our packaging. In general it looks like some kind of vestige
of the old libc5 crud on i386 (which of course never existed on alpha).
> So, I started trying to patch it for 64-bit ELF support (or actually, more
> generic ELF support), but it just isn't going well. I'm lacking the time
> to properly handle this one (even though I'm probably the best one to
> handle it, unfortunately). I'm leaning towards a complete rewrite at this
> stage, which would probably benefit the entire Linux community...
Interesting that ldconfig never got rewritten properly like the rest
of ld.so did. I might have some time to look at it.
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