FreeTDS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:22:38 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Packages are updatet and available under
> >>http://www.coolspot.de/fedora-devel/.
> >>Please test them, if you can.
> >>
> >>*They have not reached production quality* ( yet ;-) )
> >>
> >>Thanks to whom made suggestions ( mostly Michael Schwendt ).
> >>I tried to fix what I could, but a few questions are left :
> >>Shared libs are now into /usr/lib/freetds/, which is fine.
> >>Is ldconfig aware ?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >ldconfig does not search in /usr/lib/freetds, so running it makes
> >no sense.
> >
> >  
> >
> I know that, at least for older versions.
> Therefore my question about adding an entry to ld.so.conf

If you did that (e.g. via /etc/ld.so.conf.d), all libraries within the
added directory would enter the global namespace again. Not
desirable. The only remaining benefit would be, that static libs and
libtool archives would be in the private namespace.