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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 14:54:44
Message-Id: 1124031142.15824.14.camel@garath.homelinux.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:32 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Sunday 14 August 2005 16:20, Stefan Jones wrote:
3 > > But you could use "ldconfig -p" to gain a list of all the libraries, put
4 > > them in a hash table and then use scanelf.
5 > Please don't. FreeBSD's ldconfig is *not* the same and this would mean
6 > breaking (again) revdep-rebuild on Gentoo/FreeBSD.
7 >
8
9 Actually, for the next major revision, I am planning on some major
10 collaboration between myself, the Gentoo/FreeBSD team, the OSX team,
11 solar/vapier, and anyone else that is interested.
12
13 The biggest complaint right now is lack of speed and that means
14 investigating and exploring the different ways of determining library
15 breakage. Some of those solutions are definitely not portable.
16
17 Regards,
18 Paul
19
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Re: [gentoo-dev] revdep-rebuild Stefan Jones <cretin@g.o>