Re: finish mode needed for plugins?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Stefan Kost wrote:
> Are you thinking, that someone replaced ldconfig by some advanced
> ldconfig++ and loading via explicit path would fail unless the advanced
> ldconfig++ has fixed up something? Any concrete example?

No, I was thinking that there may be systems which require 'ldconfig' 
(or equivalent) in order to "bless" the file as being safe to load.
I recall strange problems in the past but my memory has faded now as 
to which OSs were involved or what the exact scenario was.

> >   Man pages are pretty useless in a situation like this.
> That was a start of doing some research.

Definitely a good start.  Installing the modules faster would surely 
be a blessing.  My package has about 100 of them.

Bob
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