Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: ldconfig??? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:48:49 +1100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ldconfig??? Thread-Index: AcHLunMJBx1WrtPWT8ehRDCHtanxewAAC6tg From: "Robert Collins" To: "Charles Wilson" , "Chris Tooley" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2F0nHt21417 > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM > To: Chris Tooley > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/