Why does libc.so use absolute path?

[Ulrich Drepper]

OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

>  Hello.
> 
>  I have a question: Why does libc.so in glibc-2.0.7pre5 use absolute
> path instead of relative path? I want to use it both on a native
> i586-gnu environment and on a cross i586-gnu environment, but if
> libc.so is

Relative paths do not work since they would be relative to the current
workign directory.  Put a file names libc.so.6 in the current dir and
remove the path from the entry in libc.so.  You'll see that nothing
works anymore.

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