From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OspAa-0004e1-04 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:48:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDBCDE08E0; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCE4E08E0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 03:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 33418 invoked by uid 0); 7 Sep 2010 03:47:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.bway.net) (216.220.96.11) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 7 Sep 2010 03:47:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:47:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Ajai Khattri To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20100906234437.N95748@shell.bway.net> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 601d38da-76f2-41f9-bc15-18e8f9833509 X-Archives-Hash: e808bf1cb930fa0ce7aeb9755fcae1c1 On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Al wrote: > No, I am comming from a Debian/Ubuntu background where it simply > worked. Same mechanism there too - Debian/Ubuntu also use /etc/ld.so.conf and/or /etc/ld.so.conf.d. You dont see it because you only deal with binary packages when updating in Debian/Ubuntu. > Now I try to port Gentoo to Cygwin and it doesn't always work. When you say Gentoo, do you mean Portage? Remember Windows has a lot of limitations that WILL get in your way so dont be surprised when things break. -- A