Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add support for ld.so.conf.d

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 7/28/14, 1:47 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Peter Seebach
> <peter.seebach@windriver.com> wrote:
>> The default behavior for USE_LDCONFIG is to use an empty ld.so.conf.
>> In some cases, it might be desireable to have an ld.so.conf.d directory,
>> and inherit files from there. This is a common enough use case to
>> justify support in the recipe, but not common enough to make it the
>> default. So, eglibc gets a new USE_LDCONFIG_CONF_D value, default 0.
>> If it's set to 1, we create the directory and add an "include" line
>> for it to ld.so.conf.
>
> the patch is good but introducing another variable is not needed you
> can cover it under US_LDCONFIG itself, ldconfig with empty ld.so.conf
> will still parse standard lib search paths anyway
>
> Secondly when we use ldconfig it generates ld.so.cache under /etc
> so I hope we take care of this when we have ro-rootfs
>

In a read-only root case, the ld.so.cache is generated in the cross environment. 
  I don't know if the cross ldconfig knows about the includes though.  Someone 
will have to check that.

--Mark