Re: finish mode needed for plugins?

[Stefan Kost]

Bob Friesenhahn schrieb:
> 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.
wounldn't it be more appropriate, if they customize the installed
libtool to call appropriate commands, instead of overloading a command
that happends to be called?
>
>
>>>   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.
>
Any ideas how to progess? I will post an article on my blog about it.
Lets see if there is some feedback.

Stefan

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