dumb libcinfig?

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