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Re: Honour LD_HWCAP_MASK in ldconfig

To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
Subject: Re: Honour LD_HWCAP_MASK in ldconfig
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:08:40 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <hog0bwrljf.fsf@gee.suse.de>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> following your suggestions, here is a patch for ldconfig.  Now
> ldconfig looks into directories specified by LD_HWCAP_MASK.

Good.

> The only question I have is whether LD_HWCAP_MASK should override
> HWCAP_IMPORTANT (as it does currently) or if we should 'or' them.

It should IMO behave just like ld.so.  And there LD_HWCAP_MASK
overwrites HWCAP_IMPORTANT.  This gives the user all the flexibility.

> Ok to commit?

I'll do it now.  Thanks,

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References:
- Honour LD_HWCAP_MASK in ldconfig
  - From: Andreas Jaeger

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