/etc/ld.so.conf.d

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:11:40AM +0100, Nils O. Sel?sdal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:00, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Earlier in the day I was moved by the plight of a developer trying to
> > figure out exactly how his rpm postinstall/postuninstall scripts should
> > edit /etc/ld.so.conf for the directories they install libraries in.
> > I think a good answer is that they shouldn't have to do that.
> > 
> > I just implemented an `include' feature with globbing in ldconfig's
> > configuration file parsing.  (This will be in an unspecified future glibc
> > rpm coming to you in rawhide in the fullness of time.)  I propose that in
> > future the canonical /etc/ld.so.conf contain just:
> > 
> > include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
> imho people should use rpath if they need to install libraries in non
> standard locations..

For rarely used dirs yes, but do you suggest that 50% of all libraries in
the system have RPATH /usr/X11R6/lib?  That would be very bad, both
performance-wise and unless it is RUNPATH, also non-overridable through
environment.  Qt/KDE are on the same boat as Xorg.

	Jakub