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LD.SO.CONF(5)             NetBSD Programmer's Manual             LD.SO.CONF(5)


NAME

     ld.so.conf - run-time link-editor configuration file


DESCRIPTION

     The ld.so.conf file specifies additional default directories (beyond the
     standard set, normally ``/usr/lib'') to be scanned by ldconfig for shared
     libraries to include in the hints file used by the run-time linker
     /usr/libexec/ld.so.

     Lines beginning with ``#'' are treated as comments and ignored.  Any oth-
     er non-blank lines are stripped of leading whitespace and trailing com-
     ments (introduced with ``#'') together with any preceding whitespace,
     then treated as directories to be scanned for shared libraries to add to
     the hints.


FILES

     /etc/ld.so.conf


SEE ALSO

     ldconfig(8)


BUGS

     Directory names containing the comment character (``#'') and/or leading
     or trailing whitespace cannot be included.  (Embedded blanks are allowed,
     however.)


HISTORY

     The ld.so.conf file appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

NetBSD 1.4                      August 24, 1997                              1