New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:33:29AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> We already have a mechanism for recording dependencies between
> libraries; it's built into the ELF format, and does not require
> hardcoding any directories.  Introducing .la files which override the
> existing mechanism and *do* hardcode directories is a regression.

That is because FreeBSD doesn't use the ELF mechanisms to specify search
directories in most cases. It still depends on the a.out orignating
ld.so.conf mechanism.

Joerg