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| author | Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> | 2014-10-28 14:47:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-10-28 14:49:12 +0100 |
| commit | d3acae5682b8b6fd23ed5767e696e6c3fcb775c4 (patch) | |
| tree | fb66400aafdb164730345ec73eeb663795e3d7c6 /man8 | |
| parent | ea55bc7b3a553b8ccd580b8a50a25d0525b986bf (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-d3acae5682b8b6fd23ed5767e696e6c3fcb775c4.tar.gz | |
ld.so.8: Correct documentation of $ORIGIN
As noted by Siddhesh:
The ld.so man page says:
$ORIGIN (or equivalently ${ORIGIN})
This expands to the directory containing the
application executable. Thus, an application located
in somedir/app could be compiled with
This is incorrect since it expands to the directory containing
the DSO and not the application executable. This seems like
deliberate behaviour in dl-object.c, so it needs to be fixed in
the man page.
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26280738/what-is-the-equivalent-of-loader-path-for-rpath-specification-on-linux/26281226#26281226
Reported-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man8')
| -rw-r--r-- | man8/ld.so.8 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index 5342aa533b..7f38d7ea22 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ understands certain strings in an rpath specification (DT_RPATH or DT_RUNPATH); .TP .IR $ORIGIN " (or equivalently " ${ORIGIN} ) This expands to -the directory containing the application executable. +the directory containing the program or shared library. Thus, an application located in .I somedir/app could be compiled with |