From 3c3ba615bb6ab0c710946c667cba2b8f389bea57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 23:18:24 +0000
Subject: re-added ld.so.conf touching explanation

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1915 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter06/glibc-exp.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter06')

diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
index db07d76ff..1acd57137 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
+<para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf:</userinput> One of the final steps
+of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader
+cache. If this file doesn't exist, the installation will abort with an error
+that it can't read the file, so we simply create an empty file (the empty
+file will have Glibc default to using /lib and /usr/lib which is fine).</para>
+
 <para><userinput>sed 's%\$(PERL)%/usr/bin/perl%' 
 malloc/Makefile.backup &gt; malloc/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command
 searches through <filename>malloc/Makefile.backup</filename> and
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