On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:07:48PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run- > time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the > directories specified on the command line, in the file > /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/usr/lib and /lib). > > This seems like the tool I want to use. The man page does not mention > that it is a Linux-only tool and should not be used it one wants > cross-platform portability. Until somebody writes a cross-platform > utility to do what I want to do, ldconfig _is_ the right tool for the job. > What does the Hurd use instead of ldconfig? I presume that they too have > to create the necessary symlinks somehow?
That would be a question for debian-hurd. As far as I know, the hurd doesn't have an ldconfig program, or didn't. -- - mdz
