Re: This thread is silly (Re: Dropping a.out support)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
3 May 1997 20:00:56 GMT
Followup to: <199705030802.BAA28391@stiefel.Stanford.EDU>
By author: "Paul H. Hargrove" <hargrove@sccm.Stanford.EDU>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > This is required only for *real old* a.out binaries (< libc 4.4.4 or so),
> > which have the libc path hardcoded.
>
> The a.out libraries such as libc and libm can be relocated to
> something like /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib. However the discussion was
> about ld.so. Unless I am missing something ld.so must be in /lib.
> After all isn't it ld.so that searches for libc?
>
... except for *really old* a.out binaries, which predate /lib/ld.so.
ld.so does have to be in /lib. libc is not an issue, really, since
the version numbers differ anyway.
-hpa
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