Re: [HACKERS] dynamic libraries

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > have done figured out, and it works.
> > >
> > > My larger question is why we don't get more reports of problems like
> > > this.  Do novices just know to go edit ld.so.conf, and run ldconfig?
> > >
> > > It is probably in the Linux FAQ, but is everyone reading that when
> > > they
> > > get the error?
> > >
> > > I am trying to figure out how to deal with this for BSDI 4.0 users.  I
> > > am sure they are going to be confused.
> > It's in the INSTALL file.  Or at least it was.
>
> I have updated the INSTALL and sgml/INSTALL files to recommend ldconfig
> on Linux/ELF and any ELF-based system.

ldconfig was there before ELF became popular.

When I originally started using Linux back in 94, I was using Slackware,
and it used aout. ldconfig was in use then.

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