> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: Chris Tooley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ldconfig???
>
>
> Chris Tooley wrote:
>
> > I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this
> > something that needs to be installed, and if so are there
> any pointers
> > as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me?
>
>
> your "something" shouldn't be looking for ldconfig on cygwin.
> It isn't
> used. ldconfig is used to setup shared libraries (creating the
> appropriate runtime links, etc) for use by the system. On windows,
> setting up a DLL consists of "put the DLL in your PATH". Period.
>
> So, no ldconfig. It's possible that we might want to include a dummy
> ldconfig (#!/bin/sh exit 0) but that might cause more
> confusion that
> the current situation.
What about an ldconfig that cehcks the path to the .dll against $PATH,
and updates [autoexec.bat|HKCU/Environment/Path|HKLM... & the current
shell PATH] if it's absent ?
Could be a good little project for someone.
Rob
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