[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD ldconfig, subdirectories

Brian Cully bcully at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 19:50:13 EST 2009


On 11-Nov-2009, at 19:26, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> However I have some subdirectories in one of my "lib32" search paths and 
> none of the libs in the subdirectories get added (confirmed with "ldconfig 
> -32 -r").
> 
> I can find no documentation explaining when ldconfig descends into 
> subdirectories and when it does not.  Can anyone point me in the right 
> direction?

	I'm a little (10 years+) out-of-date, but it used to be that you had to compile your bins with -rpath to get ld.so to load them. Personally, I'm utterly shocked that ldconfig recurses subdirectories at all.

-bjc


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