From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3919 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Progress on roadmap to 0.9.13 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:25:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20130816062536.GX221@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20130815075912.GA705@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1376634070.2737.41@driftwood> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376634351 2570 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 06:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:25:51 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3923-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Aug 16 08:25:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VADTq-000354-MW for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:25:50 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17438 invoked by uid 550); 16 Aug 2013 06:25:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17425 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2013 06:25:48 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1376634070.2737.41@driftwood> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3919 Archived-At: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:21:10AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 08/15/2013 02:59:12 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > >One key target for 0.9.13 which I didn't cover above is improving > >"make install" and possibly tweaking the symlink strategy for libc.so > >and ld-musl.so. At several times in the past, I was fairly convinced > >that it makes more sense to reverse the symlink direction and have > >libc.so point to ld-musl.so rather than the other way around. However, > >I keep going back to doubting that there's any good reason for it to > >change. So if there are people who still care about this issue, I'd > >really like to hear you speak up _now_ rather than 2 days before the > >next release, or after the next release. > > Which makes it easier to install uClibc and musl and bionic next to > each other? (You can have /lib/musl and /lib/uClibc and /lib/bionic > for most of the .so and .a files, but the dynamic linker is a > hardwired abspath in each binary and then the linker would be what > searches the more specific path...) Makes no difference. Either way, the dynamic linker is intended to be in /lib and everything else can be wherever you want it to be. Rich