[OE-core] [PATCH] eglibc: Make ld.so.conf more flexible

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Peter Seebach
<peter.seebach at windriver.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:41:30 -0500
> Ben Shelton <ben.shelton at ni.com> wrote:
>
>> Most modern distros will include conf files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
>> when generating the ld.so cache. This change will bring that flexibility.
>
> I was just looking at a patch to do roughly this. Mine added a
> USE_LDCONFIG_CONF_D flag, and then had eglibc's install create the directory
> and append that line to ld.so.conf if the flag was set. I'm not sure whether
> the extra functionality justifies the effort. I would suggest that, if
> this is going to be unconditionally present, the directory should be too.

Many embedded systems dont use ldconfig and we have USE_LDCONFIG knob
to control it.
This should fall under that knob as well.

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