ldconfig(8): update manpage to reality

[kib]

Summary

ELF ldconfig only maintains the search list, there is no hints

[bcr]

A few minor nits, the rest looks fine.

sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.8

51–54

s/configure set/configure a set/

125

s/directoriesf/directories/

[kib]

Grammar/typo.

[yuri]

The new version doesn't mention what is the limitation on shared library names.

Normally they are:

libXx.so -> libXx.so.A
libXx.so.A -> libXx.so.A.B.C
libXx.so.A.B.C

but is this also allowed?:

libXx.so -> libXx.so.A.B
libXx.so.A.B -> libXx.so.A.B.C
libXx.so.A.B.C

[kib]

In D30272#680344, @yuri wrote:

The new version doesn't mention what is the limitation on shared library names.

Normally they are:

libXx.so -> libXx.so.A
libXx.so.A -> libXx.so.A.B.C
libXx.so.A.B.C

but is this also allowed?:

libXx.so -> libXx.so.A.B
libXx.so.A.B -> libXx.so.A.B.C
libXx.so.A.B.C

New version is quite explicit that ldconfig does not care about libraries or libraries names at all.

[yuri]

In D30272#680345, @kib wrote:

New version is quite explicit that ldconfig does not care about libraries or libraries names at all.

Ok

[emaste]

sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.8

6

Portions of this documentation were written by

51–55

maybe

.Nm
utility is used to configure the set of paths used by the dynamic linker
.Xr ld-elf.so.1 1
when searching for shared libraries.

76–84

I'm not sure we need to keep this text at all - "the shared libraries which are found" implies we are building a list at ldconfig time?

88

additional shared library search directories.

112

Are they printed?

125

-r also performs a search and prints the libraries found?

143–144

should this perhaps be "only load shared libraries from paths found in the hints file"?

[kib]

Handle Ed' notes.

[kib]

More editing, remove "line 76".

[emaste]

Big improvement overall, thanks for cleaning up after my a.out removal change. One little note inline, but we can iterate on it in the tree etc. later on.

sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.8

56–59

IMO we don't really need this either - for someone unfamiliar with the history of a.out this seems like we're telling them that they don't need to do something that they wouldn't anyway. But not a big deal.

[kib]

sbin/ldconfig/ldconfig.8

56–59

Mmm, no, this does not have anything to do with a.out. It is about -rpath (actually ELF feature, I do not remember anything similar in Sun 4.x/FreeBSD a.out so).