Re: xalf, glibc, stuff

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:14:09PM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> So on #gnome-help today, someone was trying to get a newer xchat
> installed. And in the process, he required a newer glibc. He
> installed that and then "su broke, it complains about not finding
> a shared library". 
> 
> Pause for brief gibber :) 
> 
> We eventually figured it out. It was due to xalf inserting something
> into LD_PRELOAD and glibc not being entirely happy about that. We
> suggested he file a bug, and then we found someone had done precisely 
> that already: 
> 
> https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/dimension/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=2007
> 
> Can whoever is pushing for xalf's inclusion into Gnome 1.4 please
> ensure that either xalf itself is fixed upstream from Mandrake, or
> that the xalf Gnome 1.4 ships includes whatever patches they did? 
> I can't find who it was who originally proposed it. All there is 
> in the releng cvs module is a TODO of "talk to author" and there's
> no mention of anything like this on its website, just a reference 
> to a control center capplet bug being fixed. 

I believe a new xalf is out already.  The problem was two fold,

1) LD_PRELOAD was being unset very conservatively, so it could sometimes
creap into processes it had no bussiness being in.  It should really never
be set in your terminal session.
2) it was not set with path

#1 I sent a patch to the xalf guy and I suppose it's been included (though
haven't checked)

#2 is the mandrake fix.

both of these should be in

George

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