[PATCH] Add --print-dirs option for ldconfig

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists@gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 19:07:00 GMT 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> OK. It's a tiny patch, though, and it's useful information. Would you
>> consider applying it?
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> No, why?  It's useless complication.  The information should not be
> used.  It's misleading.

It's useful information. Where is the linker on this system setup to
search? "ldconfig -P". What does it complicate? ldconfig is already
building the search path, why not optionally print it out so you can
see what it's doing?

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Dan



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