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Subject: RE: ldconfig???
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:48:49 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
   "Chris Tooley" <ctooley AT amoa DOT org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] 
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM
> To: Chris Tooley
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: ldconfig???
> 
> 
> Chris Tooley wrote:
> 
> > I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig.  Is this 
> > something that needs to be installed, and if so are there 
> any pointers 
> > as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me?
> 
> 
> your "something" shouldn't be looking for ldconfig on cygwin. 
>  It isn't 
> used.  ldconfig is used to setup shared libraries (creating the 
> appropriate runtime links, etc) for use by the system.  On windows, 
> setting up a DLL consists of "put the DLL in your PATH".  Period.
> 
> So, no ldconfig.  It's possible that we might want to include a dummy 
> ldconfig (#!/bin/sh  exit 0)  but that might cause more 
> confusion that 
> the current situation.

What about an ldconfig that cehcks the path to the .dll against $PATH,
and updates [autoexec.bat|HKCU/Environment/Path|HKLM... & the current
shell PATH] if it's absent ?

Could be a good little project for someone.

Rob

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