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SubjectRe: This thread is silly (Re: Dropping a.out support)
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Gerd Knorr writes:
> >The bigest complication (again IMHO) is the necessity of keeping both
> >old and new versions in /lib.
>
> This is required only for *real old* a.out binaries (< libc 4.4.4 or so),
> which have the libc path hardcoded.
[snip]

The a.out libraries such as libc and libm can be relocated to
something like /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib. However the discussion was
about ld.so. Unless I am missing something ld.so must be in /lib.
After all isn't it ld.so that searches for libc?
--
Paul H. Hargrove All material not otherwise attributed
hargrove@sccm.stanford.edu is the opinion of the author or a typo.

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