Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Jul 07 2008 - 03:50:18 EST


Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> I'm not sure... if ld.conf.d isn't parse of the kernel source tree then
>> it -will- end in tears...
>
> Of course, you should include the file you want people to install
> as part of the kernel source or build. You can copy it into
> place in make install or something if you like (convention is to
> call it something.conf in /etc/ld.so.conf.d); then run ldconfig.

That will make it part of the kernel ABI, since the mapping depends on
the running kernel, doesn't it?

Andreas.

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