From 50f648b0eeb0297da4075efc596b4d553f927aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:42:50 +0000
Subject: Added optional instructions that explains how to add
 /etc/ld.so.conf.d as an include directory for the loader

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9496 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter06/glibc.xml | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06')

diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index 7c8159272..9745908f5 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -370,13 +370,23 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
 <literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
-
 /usr/local/lib
 /opt/lib
-
-# End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
+</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
+  <para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
+  include the contents of files found there.  Generally the files in 
+  this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
+  To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal># Add an include directory
+include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
+</literal>
+EOF
+mkdir /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
+
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
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