Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] ld.so.8: some improvements from Debian

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-04-16T07:26:58Z

Jonathan,

This patch series fell on the floor. Are you interested in having
another go? If yes, let's discuss some details first.

Cheers,

Michael

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to see Debian using the ld.so(8) page from the man-pages
> project instead of its own custom copy, so people making improvements
> to that documentation would not need to choose which to contribute to.
> Here are some changes that might make it easier to use the upstream
> ld.so.8 as a drop-in replacement.
>
> I have tried to be very conservative, when in doubt matching what is
> in Debian's libc-bin package.  Some comments on this in the mails with
> each patch.
>
> Anyway, some of these seem to me like good improvements to the page
> regardless.  What do you think?
>
> Jonathan Nieder (6):
>  ld.so.8: clarify synopsis
>  ld.so.8: move important information toward the top
>  ld.so.8: document LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
>  ld.so.8: document Debian's /etc/ld.so.nohwcap extension
>  ld.so.8: document $PLATFORM and $LIB expansion
>  ld.so.8: document how hwcaps affect search path
>
>  man8/ld.so.8 |  181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
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Michael Kerrisk
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