Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote:
> reassign 564874 manpages,libc-bin
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:38:15AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> Package: manpages
>> Version: 3.23-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> The current ld.so manpage is from glibc. It's gratuitously out of date
>> and just plain wrong in places. The one in manpages is current and
>> reasonably accurate. Please arrange for the version from manpages to
>> be shipped instead of the glibc version.
>
> I concur, but we need agreement of libc-bin maintainers.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/ld.so.8.libc-bin
> http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/libc-or-manpages/ld.so.8.manpages-linux
>
> The manpages-linux version provides more environment variables:
> LD_AUDIT
> LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
> LD_HWCAP_MASK
> LD_ORIGIN_PATH
> LD_POINTER_GUARD
> LD_SHOW_AUXV
> LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS
>
> (but no more LD_ASSUME_KERNEL).
For info: Jonathan Neider, CCed was looking at integrating those
pieces of the Debian libc-bin page that were missing from the upstream
man-pages ld.so.8 page. We did upstream one piece already, but I'm not
sure what Jonathan's current plans are for further work.
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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