Re: Re: dumb libcinfig?

> --- In iolanguage@..., "bblochl2" <bblochl2@...> wrote:
>>
>> I am always interested in bugs ore faults of componenets, so as I  
>> found the intersting posting of Jeremy Tregunna from Mon Jun 8,  
>> 2009 4:42 am (Bug Report: "make install" on Ubuntu should run  
>> "ldconfig" as final - on the iolanguage yahoo!-group) I tracked the  
>> net for GNU ld, ldconfig and Jeremy Tregunna in any combination. I  
>> was surprised how sparse the tracks and how secret his postings  
>> were, that he started from 1994 in his own oppinion? (Jeremy  
>> Tregunna in his posting of Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:42 am - Bug Report:  
>> "make install" on Ubuntu should run "ldconfig" as final - on the  
>> iolanguage yahoo!-group)
>>
>> The oldest posts are leeching posts from 1989, I could not find any  
>> leeching or seeding befor 1998? (Topics: netscape problem ... The  
>> CampGround 17 May 1998 17:37:59 -0000, problem with libXt.so.6... 2  
>> Feb 1998 08:44:30 -0000) No one from 1994, not even befor 1998.
>>
>> Well, under that given circumstances I would not wave with a  
>> contract. The net never foregtets any entry, even ones from 1994. I  
>> recommend to qualify his statement yourself: "If I didn't have to  
>> sign a copyright waiver, I'd submit a patch for more modern  
>> behaviour." (Jeremy Tregunna in his posting of Mon Jun 8, 2009 4:42  
>> am - Bug Report: "make install" on Ubuntu should run "ldconfig" as  
>> final - on the iolanguage yahoo!-group)
>>
>> To my regret I found no usable hint for the possible source of the  
>> weakness in ldconfig and I am still groping in the dark and so we  
>> all still have to live with the dumb ldconfig.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> BB
>>
>
> I did some more work on that topic in the meantime. I checked the  
> actual package debian list http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages 
>  and the SUSE-List as well http://en.opensuse.org/Package_List/11.1/GNOME-LiveCD-i686 
> . There is no libconfig-file listed. I also browsed the history and  
> the bug-history of debian as well and found from different postings  
> that that file was removed about 2008. (Indeed there had been some  
> minor weakness reported.)
>
> I do not know if anyone really needs an improvement for that  
> package? ("If I didn't have to sign a copyright waiver, I'd submit a  
> patch for more modern behaviour.")
>
> So I think that libconfig-chapter is closed - for shure for me.  Let  
> us do some usefull work for that libiovmall-problem.