Error in documentation of $ORIGIN in the ld.so man page

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 09/10/14 23:18 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>The ld.so man page says:
>
>       $ORIGIN (or equivalently ${ORIGIN})
>              This expands to the directory containing the application
>executable.  Thus, an application located in somedir/app could be
>compiled with
>
>which is incorrect since it expands to the directory containing the
>DSO and not the application executable.  This seems like deliberate
>behaviour in dl-object.c, so it needs to be fixed in the man page.
>Credit goes to Jon Wakely for finding this[1].

Thanks, Siddhesh, I was just preparing this suggested patch.


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