PPC: Textual blur in 10.7.4 (Cfg dynlinker)

[Thomas]

As far as I know, slackintosh is using ld.so.1. Gentoo I didn't look at but I'm sure is, the slackintosh mailing list mentions that most all distros are using ld.so.1.

ld.so.1 probably existed for x86 in the real early ld days, but most everything but ppc/ppc64 is using ld-linux.so.2

There are ways to get ppc and ppc64 to use ld-linux.so.2 instead, but that isn't needed. It may change in the future that ppc and ppc64 will move to ld-linux.so.2.

For the book, the default is ld.so.1.

I've never encountered a ppc build, yet, that doesn't use ld.so.1.

[ken]

This sounds as if it might affect other arches too. I'll take a look.

[Joe Ciccone]

Sparc64 and Sparcv9 use ld-linux.so.2. Alpha uses ld-linux.so.2 x86 uses ld-linux.so.2 x86_64 uses ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

[Joe Ciccone]

This has gone a while without any changes, what's the status of it?

[William Harrington]

Replying to Moody:

In chapter 10.7.4 (Configuring the dynamic linker) there is /lib/ld-linux.so.2 named as default linker, mostly true but not on PPC systems. There it should read as /lib/ld.so.1, isn't it?