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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH and XFree86 3.2 on NetBSD/i386
Date: 3 Jan 1997 13:51:17 +0100
Organization: Privates Internet Ost-Westfalen-Lippe
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In article <5ag32f$84c@wsrcc.com>,
wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
>>What should be the advantage of compiling absolute paths into binaries?
>
> It allows one a bit of flexibility when upgrading large software
> collections like X11 or kerberos.
No, it doesn't. Indeed it's very, very unflexible. Without absolute
paths in binaries you can easily select libraries with "ldconfig" or
"LD_LIBRARY_PATH".
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Matthias Scheler http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/