Re: xalf, glibc, stuff

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com> writes:

> 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 :))
> 

Now that's a responsive maintainer :-)

So George, is 0.7 ready for the GNOME beta or what?

 - Maciej