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33.Dd December 30, 1996
34.Dt LD.SO.CONF 5
35.Os NetBSD 1.3
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm ld.so.conf
38.Nd run-time link-editor configuration file
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42file specifies the directories to be added to the hints file used by the
43run-time linker
44.Pa /usr/libexec/ld.so
45at system boot time.  Each line in
46.Nm
47is treated as a directory to be added to the hints.
48.Sh FILES
49.Pa /etc/ld.so.conf
50.Sh SEE ALSO
51.Xr ldconfig 8
52.Sh BUGS
53The
54.Nm
55file should allow comments with # symbol, but the current implementation
56does not allow this.
57.Sh HISTORY
58The
59.Nm
60file appeared in
61.Nx 1.3 .
62