14-Jun-2004
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This is an answer to someone on #slackware who mentioned that glibc's
doinst.sh didn't create symlinks on Alpha Slackware.  I always forget
about this myself, so here's the answer I wrote:

The ldconfig check before making symlinks is because
ldconfig can create the versioned symlinks itself when it's
next run (because the libraries contain the version number).
However, if ldconfig isn't present then these must be created manually.

When you installed on the existing alpha, these symlinks were not created
because ldconfig only considered the *local machine* and as such it
did not find any new libraries in /lib and /usr/lib or anywhere in
/etc/ld.so.conf.  However, ldconfig -r /path fixed this for obvious reasons.