From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ld.so.8: document $PLATFORM and $LIB expansion Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:59:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20120416165945.GS5813@burratino> References: <20111020070037.GA11392@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> <201110201416.30351.vapier@gentoo.org> <20111021052528.GF23372@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> <201112102216.34565.vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201112102216.34565.vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Frysinger Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Aurelien Jarno , Reuben Thomas , Reinhard Tartler List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2011 01:25:28 Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> What would a person typically use ${LIB} in an rpath for? > > it's useful when you want to preload a library for multiple process types. > why this would get used in an RPATH tag, i can't really guess Ah, that makes sense. So it's for consistency with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html