Re: A problem with `make elf/ldso_install'

[Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  I believe the following change is responsible for the new behaviour. 
> What was it expected to achieve?
> 
> 2000-03-17  Cristian Gafton  <gafton@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* elf/Makefile ($(rtld-version-installed-name)): Delay replacing
> 	existing rtld-installed-name.
> 	($(rtld-installed-name)): Request libc-$(version) be installed too.
> 	replace existing rtld-installed-name using $(symbolic-link-prog).

This patch was meant as a very incomplete hack to make "make install" for
glibc work by avoiding to run a combination like old-libc.so.6 with new
ld.so. The patch would force the copy of the new libc.so.6 immediately
before ld.so will get installed.

Apparently I was the only developer that found it usefull to be able to do
a make install on glibc in the real filesystem directly, so the patch got
reverted at some time.

Cristian
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