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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:15:02 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject:   Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks
Message-ID:  <200712021515.03884.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20071202013010.GA6198@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr>
References:  <1196470143.4750af7f6accf@webmail.rawbw.com> <20071201230022.R74097@fledge.watson.org> <20071202013010.GA6198@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr>

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> libraries under /compat/linux so that they match the FreeBSD
> hierarchy (and teach ld-linux to use the same search path as the
> native loader). And yet another solution is to teach the linuxolator
> to first do an exhaustive search for libraries under /compat/linux
> and only then fall back to native ones (this seems similar to the
> above LD_LIBRARY_PATH incantation).

The problem is that the dynamic linker is only opening files based on=20
the search path & cache - it doesn't know it isn't on a real linux box.

I think the only way to 'fix' it would be to kludge the linuxulator to=20
treat ld.so specially but that would be pretty gross :(

It IS a pain tho! :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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