Re: xalf, glibc, stuff

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

On 13 Feb 2001 06:20:59 -0800, George wrote:
> 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)

Peter has merged your patch in xalf 0.6

> #2 is the mandrake fix.

Peter has merged my patch in xalf 0.7 (same day :))

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Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft