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Re: "ldconfig ." issue

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:59:01 -0700
Subject: Re: "ldconfig ." issue
References: <20030722170451.GA6608@lucon.org> <200307221954.h6MJsCL24867@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:54:12PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > "ldconfig ." will add '.' to /etc/ld.so.cache. Shouldn't it convert
> > a relative path to the absolute path first?
> 
> I don't know why anyone would give it a relative path.
> It would be reasonable just to refuse anything not starting with /.

When I play with shared libraries, I may do

# ldconfig -n .

to create the right symlinks for me.


H.J.

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