PATCH: ldconfig.c considers ld.so.conf entries before /lib,/usr/lib

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

  Ulrich>  It's completely irrelevant what the man pages say.

Yes, that was purely anecdotal.

  Ulrich> The current way ldconfig works is how it worked ever since.  There
  Ulrich> is no reason to change it since this will have negative effects and
  Ulrich> might suddenly change the behavior of people's systems.

That is a lingering concern I had too.

  Ulrich> If you depend on the order ldconfig searches directories you are
  Ulrich> doing something wrong.  This is no tool to resolve conflicts.

Not a conflict. Atlas' libblas.so is a drop-in replacement for the standard
libblas.so. 

But if it doesn't fly ... we will have to stick with shell wrappers. Pity.

Dirk