Re: [PATCH] Add support for ld-elf.so.hints on FreeBSD

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:19:28PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 18:15, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > You may want to check if it exists 
> > before including it and provides default macros if they aren't
> > defined.
> The problem here is that elf hints are specific to the platform, so they makes 
> little sense for non-native linkers.
> Probably it would be better to change the condition to match NATIVE instead of 
> USE_LIBPATH (as it's being done for Linux and GNU/* systems, but in that case 
> what it's parsed it's just a text file).
> 
> Although I could put the content of the header in the code, there's a check 
> for a magic number probably used to make sure that the structure of the file 
> being parsed is the right one, and if they ever think of changing that 
> structure, the search would fail. Yes there's probably no lost in it to fail, 
> but there's also no win in checking the current running ls.so's hints file 
> when using a crosslinker.

What's supposed to happen is that we have a sysroot for the target
FreeBSD system, possibly including a hints file.  See /etc/ld.so.conf
handling for GNU/Linux for a parallel; as far as I can tell this is
the same behavior you want.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery