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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:17:53 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proper use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Linux progs?
Message-ID:  <20081213211753.172124oke0p9oqdc@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081213211115.1274360bbklovuas@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <uh7fxktvabe.fsf@P142.sics.se> <20081213211115.1274360bbklovuas@webmail.leidinger.net>

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Quoting Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> (from Sat, 13 =20
Dec 2008 21:11:15 +0100):

> Quoting Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se> (from Fri, 12 Dec 2008 =20
> 13:37:25 +0100):
>
>> The reason is that the acroread launch script sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> which is propagated to its childs.  See this PR:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/129553
>
>> Question 2: what is the "proper" way to fix this problem?
>> (specifically for acroread8, but also in general.)
>
> Search the archive for the ports mailinglist, in the mail =20
> "print/acroread8: LD_LIBRARY_PATH breaks helper programs" is a fix =20
> for the problem.

ROTFL... this mail on ports@ is from you... :-)

I suggest to contact the port maintainer with the fix. If he doesn't =20
answer, send a PR. As soon as someone (maintainer / other committer in =20
the PR case) has time and motivation, the fix will get committed.

Bye,
Alexander (ENOTIME ATM, else I would have taken care about this already).

--=20
Gordon's first law:
=09If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing
=09well.

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