PATCH: "ldconfig ." issue

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Jul 22 21:04:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:54:33PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Here is the patch. It ignore relative path if cache will be built.
> 
> I think it should be a fatal error.  ldconfig warning and then ignoring
> what you asked it to do is not so useful IMHO.

Here is a new patch.


H.J.
---
2003-07-22  H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	* elf/ldconfig.c (main): Issue a fatal error if relative path
	is used to build cache.

--- elf/ldconfig.c.relpath	2003-07-22 08:55:23.000000000 -0700
+++ elf/ldconfig.c	2003-07-22 14:01:26.000000000 -0700
@@ -1009,13 +1009,18 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   /* Parse and process arguments.  */
   argp_parse (&argp, argc, argv, 0, &remaining, NULL);
 
-  /* Remaining arguments are additional libraries if opt_manual_link
+  /* Remaining arguments are additional directories if opt_manual_link
      is not set.  */
   if (remaining != argc && !opt_manual_link)
     {
       int i;
       for (i = remaining; i < argc; ++i)
-	add_dir (argv[i]);
+	if (opt_build_cache && argv[i][0] != '/')
+	  error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
+		 _("relative path `%s' used to build cache"),
+		 argv[i]);
+	else
+	  add_dir (argv[i]);
     }
 
   set_hwcap ();



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