Re: /etc/rc.d/ldconfig, ELF and a.out

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:26:49PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	For ELF systems there does not seem to be much point in running
> 	/etc/rc.d/ldconfig to generate the 'a.out runtime link editor
> 	directory cache'. At the very least there should be an rcvar
> 	for it, and I would suggest defaulting it to 'off'.
> 
> 	The only port that is still a.out is pc532, which is stuck at
> 	1.5.3 anyway.
> 
> 	Would anyone have any objections to such a change?

It's there to build the cache for a.out compatibility, isn't it ?
I agree there should now be a way to disable it, but maybe it shouldn't
default to off ...

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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