Merkle trees and build systems [LWN.net]

Merkle trees and build systems

Posted May 28, 2020 17:18 UTC (Thu) by estansvik (guest, #127963)
Parent article: Merkle trees and build systems

Neat solution. Minor correction: I think the target of the ldconfig rule in the mandb/ldconfig example figure should be /etc/ld.so.cache, not the /lib and /usr/lib subtrees (?)

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Merkle trees and build systems

Posted May 28, 2020 21:20 UTC (Thu) by MrWim (subscriber, #47432) [Link] (1 responses)

> Neat solution. Minor correction: I think the target of the ldconfig rule in the mandb/ldconfig example figure should be /etc/ld.so.cache, not the /lib and /usr/lib subtrees (?)

It's both really. ldconfig creates the symlinks in /lib and /usr/lib, so it needs to be that too.

Merkle trees and build systems

Posted May 29, 2020 14:36 UTC (Fri) by estansvik (guest, #127963) [Link]

Ah, right.