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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2021-12-10 16:06:36 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2021-12-10 16:06:58 +0100
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elf: Install a symbolic link to ld.so as /usr/bin/ld.so
This makes ld.so features such as --preload, --audit, and --list-diagnostics more accessible to end users because they do not need to know the ABI name of the dynamic loader. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Major new features:
variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
Restartable Sequences.
+* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
+ /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary