[PATCH v2] elf: Install a symbolic link to ld.so as /usr/bin/ld.so

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 15 2021, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:

> This makes ld.so features such as --preload, --audit,
> and --list-diagnostics more accessible to end users because they
> do not need to know the ABI name of the dynamic loader.

Ok.

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index f10971b180..2f56f3db28 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Major new features:
>    to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
>    return value is only used for its boolean status.
>  
> +* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
> +  /usr/bin/ld.so (or ${bindir}/ld.so if glibc is not configured with
> +  --prefix=/usr).

This is true even if --prefix=/usr.

Andreas.

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