[uClibc] Re: The naming wars continue...

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> > > > using this occation for a reminder - as soon as uclibc would get
> > > > an explicit runtime loader, like glibc has,
> > > > it will be possible to seamlessly run an application,
> > > > with an arbitrary collection of libraries, without collisions,
> > > > via a simple wrapper.
> > > > You could do things which you can't with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > > > 
> > > > Please consider the useful design features...
> > > 
> > > For the record: this would (and it did for me) break horribly
> > > with uc-programs exec-ing glibc ones.
> > > 
> > > uc-Midnight Commander was working okay but couldn't run even a
> > > /bin/sh.
> > > 
> > > I ended up patching ld-uClibc-0.9.26.so:
> > 
> > [SNIP]
> > 
> > You could make "/lib:/usr/lib" a config option to uClibc. Glibc has
> > something similar, SYSTEM_DIRS if I recall correctly. 
> > Then you could also control the usage of "/usr/X11R6/lib" in uClibc.
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> btw I don't need to handle /usr/X11R6/lib, every file from there is
> symlinked into /usr/lib. Just say "no" to special cases like this.

I know, but that was not my call.

 Jocke