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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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On Saturday 15 July 2006 23:34, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > The whole point of the -L option is so that it picks up target shared
> > libraries, eg. in lib and usr/lib. By my reading your patch makes the -L
> > option do absolutely nothing, which can't be right.
> >
> > The proper fix is to do the lookups when a file is accesses (possibly
> > with caching) not pre-scan the whole tree.
>
> Is it possible to use the same cache format as ld.so

I don't think there's any point having a persistent cache, and I don't thin 
the ld.so format would be particularly appropriate either. Qemu just does 
straight filename translation.

Paul