[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] Makefile.in: removed call to ldconfig

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, July 23, 2010 12:10:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> > > Actually, I'd like to reduce complexity as much as possible, so
> > > please, please no non-standard options/variables.
> > 
> > DESTDIR is not non-standard in any way.  do some research eh.
> 
> But running certain additional commands on the live system when
> DESTDIR is not set is not actually very standard ...

but that isnt what you said

> > in general you're wrong here (read the ldconfig manual),
> 
> Why exactly ?
> 
> ldconfig does fixups for the live system. they're target and distro
> dependent.

read all the possible options of ldconfig and then look at what it actually 
does in a tree of shared libs.  it is not distro specific when the config 
files are not relevant, nor is the cache generation the only function it 
performs.  ive seen a package or two use those extended functions.
-mike
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