On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote: > Thanks for the help before with the Perl and libc issue. I seemed to > kick off an interesting topic :-) I am still learning about the HURD > and am having to "unlearn what I have learned" from Linux and not take > things like ldconfig for granted :-) From what I gather from the > discussion that followed all binaries should know in which paths to > look automatically without having to query a hints file?
This is the "rpath" solution. The path to the library is hard coded in the binary. Debian has a policy against rpath, so we don't use it. This is why you need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, the new elf standard has DT_RUNPATH (or so), which I hope we can use. It is like rpath, but has not such a high precedence. > Is there an deb-src equivalent I can stick in my apt sources files so > I can try and poke around the src myself? We use the conventional Debian source archive (Same as Linux). Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
