Hi,

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018, 19:01 Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net wrote:

> On 2018-11-15 06:35, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> > Package: libc-bin
> > Version: 2.27-8
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > According to the current code of ldconfig and ld, there's subtle
> > difference in parsing of /etc/ld.so.conf by these two tools:
> >
> > * ldconfig interprets relative paths in includes relatively to the
> >   current directory it run in, and absolute path relatively to the
> >   current "chroot" directory, if set
> >
> > * ld interprets relative paths in includes relatively to the directory
> >   the parsed file is in, and apparently ignores the --sysroot setting
> >   for absolute paths and does not relativise them to this sysroot.
>
> Given you reported the bug only to the glibc side, does it mean you
> would like the glibc behaviour to be changed, and the binutils one to be
> kept unchanged? We definitely want ldconfig to interpret paths relative
> to the "chroot" directory (-r option), this is important to initialize a
> cache without having to first chroot into the directory.
>

Actually, I want both sides to change:

* ldconfig to interpret relative paths relatively to the directory the
including file is in
* ld to respect --sysroot when including (bugs with patches reported in
Debian and upstream).

> dpkg-shlibdeps follows ldconfig, but always takes absolute paths
> > relatively to the absolute root.
> >
> > Also, ldconfig's manpage doesn't mention include directive at all
>
> The manpage is provided by the manpages package and not by glibc.
>

Thanks, good to know, apparently, I need to file a bug against that package.


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