ld.so.8: Items in LD_LIBRARY_PATH can also be delimited by semicolons

See http://bgs.debian.org/794559.

Reported-by: Jonathan David Amery <jdamery@ysolde.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 700628c44bb3c2243ddb3410880d606035ccdc8d..1c643c760a544e6c81ef790167d7ef8360b5a093 100644 (file)
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -228,8 +228,9 @@ when they are first referenced.
 This is useful when using a debugger.
 .TP
 .B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for
+A list of directories in which to search for
 ELF libraries at execution-time.
+The items in the list are separated by either colons or semicolons.
 Similar to the
 .B PATH
 environment variable.