Changeset 35b625c

Timestamp:

03/04/2002 09:19:37 PM (23 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v3_2, v3_3, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

4faf336

Parents:

2729cd6

Message:

better explanation for the *.so symlinks in /usr/lib

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1660 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml

@@ -22 +22 @@
 
 <para><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so etc:</userinput> These
-symlinks are created so the linker will use the dynamic versions of these
-libraries instead of the static ones, which happens if the linker can't
-find the dynamic versions.</para>
+symlinks are created to tidy up the installation. It's good practise to
+have the *.so files in /usr/lib as well as in /lib, to ensure that the
+linker is always able to find the files whether it's looking in /lib or
+/usr/lib.</para>
 
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