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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-10 16:06:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-10 16:06:58 +0100 |
| commit | 2e75604f8337fa4332977f72a8f6726309679edf (patch) | |
| tree | cd0a9951017b62dbead3179dd70cef81aab9b22f | |
| parent | 5cc338565479a620244c2f8ff35956629c4dbf81 (diff) | |
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elf: Install a symbolic link to ld.so as /usr/bin/ld.so
This makes ld.so features such as --preload, --audit,
and --list-diagnostics more accessible to end users because they
do not need to know the ABI name of the dynamic loader.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | elf/Makefile | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Major new features: variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of Restartable Sequences. +* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under + /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so'). + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary diff --git a/elf/Makefile b/elf/Makefile index ef36008673..d0bb0daa7e 100644 --- a/elf/Makefile +++ b/elf/Makefile @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ endif ifeq (yes,$(build-shared)) extra-objs = $(all-rtld-routines:%=%.os) sofini.os interp.os generated += librtld.os dl-allobjs.os ld.so ldd -install-others = $(inst_rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name) +install-others = $(inst_rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name) $(inst_bindir)/ld.so install-bin-script = ldd endif @@ -692,6 +692,11 @@ $(inst_rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name): $(objpfx)ld.so $(+force) $(make-target-directory) $(do-install-program) +# Creates the relative /usr/bin/ld.so symbolic link. +$(inst_bindir)/ld.so: $(inst_rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name) + $(make-target-directory) + $(make-link) + # Special target called by parent to install just the dynamic linker. .PHONY: ldso_install ldso_install: $(inst_rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name) |