Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [patch] flexible env-update
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:22:29
Message-Id: 200601150523.30252.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [patch] flexible env-update by "Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)"
1 On Sunday 15 January 2006 05:10, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:
2 > On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:52:16 -0500
3 >
4 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
5 > > along the same lines of the previous patch, this allows people to
6 > > call `env-update` without regenerating the ld.so.cache if they
7 > > want ... i can easily use this in gcc-config/binutils-config to make
8 > > those suckers a hell of a lot faster (the delay from switching
9 > > versions is because the ld.so.cache is rebuilt)
10 >
11 > Since switching gcc and binutils configs swaps out library directories
12 > in ld.so.conf, isn't it necessary to rebuild ld.so.cache anyway?
13
14 yes, but they swap out very specific known paths which means we can tweak them
15 to only run ldconfig on those dirs rather than all paths (but mostly not /lib
16 and /usr/lib)
17 -mike
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