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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ldconfig: add method to extend ldconfig search dirs
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On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 08:33 -0800, akuster808 wrote:
> ping
> 
> On 11/11/2015 09:41 AM, Armin Kuster wrote:
> > From: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
> > 
> > this provides a method to extend the search path ldconfig-native
> > uses when creating ls.so.cache.
> > 
> > To enable in recipe:
> > 
> > add:
> > inherit ldconfig
> > 
> > LDSOCONF = "/opt/lib"
> > 
> > this will create a ld.so.conf file in work-shared/ldconfig/${PN}/
> > 
> > to create an image with these new search paths included, add to
> > local.conf:
> > 
> > INHERIT += "image-ldconfig"
> > 
> > this will take all the ${PN}/ld.so.conf files and create a single
> > ld.so.conf
> > that will be used by ldconfig-native when building an image.

The problem that you're solving here seems like fundamentally a distro
one.  I remain slightly sceptical that the whole concept of ldconfig
makes a lot of sense for the majority of oe-core users and, for those
for whom it does, I don't entirely understand why it doesn't suffice to
have the packages with unusual requirements install an appropriate file
in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and the distro arrange for /etc/ld.so.conf to
include all of those.

So, can you provide a bit more explanation as to why this patch is a
good thing?

p.