tags 794559 fixed-upstream thanks On 08/04/2015 02:05 PM, Jonathan David Amery wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.44-1 > Severity: normal > > The documentation for LD_LIBRARY_PATH notes that the list is colon-seperated; > however ld.so also treats ';' as a seperator (possibly for compatability > reasons). > > The manpage should note this otherwise the results of trying to have a library > path that includes a ';' as part of a directory name are very confusing.
Thanks Jonathan. I confirm your point, and I've applied the patch below. Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index 700628c..1c643c7 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -228,8 +228,9 @@ when they are first referenced. This is useful when using a debugger. .TP .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH -A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for +A list of directories in which to search for ELF libraries at execution-time. +The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons. Similar to the .B PATH environment variable. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
