More on 32bit/64bit ABIs under Linux

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 22, 1999, Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> I have a modified ldconfig which handles all of this from within one
> ld.so.conf (attached bellow).

Sounds good, except that it would break programs that already rely on
the format of ld.so.conf.  Libtool, for example, was more than once
suggested to parse ld.so.conf looking for directories that need not be
hardcoded into executables.  Unfortunately, the current documentation
of ldconfig/ld.so.conf doesn't leave much space for
backward-compatible extensions :-(

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