Is there an "easy guide to ELF" which explains all this stuff? Thanks, Jon
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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 > > -- PGP information is available at http://members.wri.com/johnnyb/about/
