Honour LD_HWCAP_MASK in ldconfig
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 11:12:00 GMT 2001
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> following your suggestions, here is a patch for ldconfig. Now
> ldconfig looks into directories specified by LD_HWCAP_MASK.
Good.
> The only question I have is whether LD_HWCAP_MASK should override
> HWCAP_IMPORTANT (as it does currently) or if we should 'or' them.
It should IMO behave just like ld.so. And there LD_HWCAP_MASK
overwrites HWCAP_IMPORTANT. This gives the user all the flexibility.
> Ok to commit?
I'll do it now. Thanks,
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