This is an alternative ldconfig wildcard expansion (glob) patch for
recent glibc's.

  - Valentin Ziegler <valentin@rocklinux-consulting.de>

--- ./elf/ldconfig.c.orig	2004-09-14 13:28:34.000000000 +0200
+++ ./elf/ldconfig.c	2004-09-14 14:19:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -359,21 +359,57 @@
   if (opt_chroot)
     path = chroot_canon (opt_chroot, path);
 
-  struct stat64 stat_buf;
-  if (path == NULL || stat64 (path, &stat_buf))
-    {
-      if (opt_verbose)
-	error (0, errno, _("Can't stat %s"), entry->path);
-      free (entry->path);
-      free (entry);
-    }
-  else
-    {
-      entry->ino = stat_buf.st_ino;
-      entry->dev = stat_buf.st_dev;
+  /* assume path is a pattern. - Valentin */
 
-      add_single_dir (entry, 1);
-    }
+  glob_t result;
+  if (glob(path, GLOB_ONLYDIR, NULL, &result) == 0) {
+
+    for (int j = 0; j < result.gl_pathc; j++)
+      {
+	/* create a copy entry with expanded path */
+	struct dir_entry *real_entry = xmalloc (sizeof (struct dir_entry));
+	memcpy (real_entry, entry, sizeof (struct dir_entry));
+ 	real_entry->path = xstrdup (result.gl_pathv[j]);
+
+	struct stat64 stat_buf;
+	if (real_entry -> path == NULL || stat64 (real_entry -> path, &stat_buf))
+	  {
+	    if (opt_verbose)
+	      error (0, errno, _("Can't stat %s"), real_entry->path);
+	    free (real_entry->path);
+	    free (real_entry);
+	  }
+	else
+	  {
+	    real_entry->ino = stat_buf.st_ino;
+	    real_entry->dev = stat_buf.st_dev;
+
+	    add_single_dir (real_entry, 1);
+	  }
+      }
+
+  } else {
+    /* fallback to code from glibc with orig. error handling */
+    struct stat64 stat_buf;
+    if (path == NULL || stat64 (path, &stat_buf))
+      {
+	if (opt_verbose)
+	  error (0, errno, _("Can't stat %s"), entry->path);
+	free (entry->path);
+	free (entry);
+      }
+    else
+      {
+	entry->ino = stat_buf.st_ino;
+	entry->dev = stat_buf.st_dev;
+
+	add_single_dir (entry, 1);
+      }
+  }
+    
+  globfree (&result);
+
+  /* ******************************* */
 
   if (opt_chroot)
     free (path);