Subject: Re: execve call from Linux emul to NetBSD native problem ?
To: None <10.50@free.fr>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/24/2003 10:34:10
On Nov 24,  4:03pm, 10.50@free.fr (10.50@free.fr) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: execve call from Linux emul to NetBSD native problem ?

| Selon Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>:
| 
| > You could and then set LD_DEBUG.
| 
| Done. I found the bug. The shell script responsible for setting up the 
| environnement of opera setenv's a variable called LD_PRELOAD to nil. It 
| breaks ld.elf_so. Commenting out the thing fixes the bug. It seems to 
| be a workaround for some Java Runtime distribution.

Is it setting it to "nil" or just "". If it is just "", we could consider
fixing our LD_PRELOAD to ignore it.
 
| Go figure.
| 
| More fright than evil, as we say here.

Yes.

| Thanks for your input and help

Thank you for tracking it down.
 
| PS : by the way, the LD_DEBUG variable seems to have no effect. I have 
| the debug output with or without it.

That is not supposed to work this way. There should be no output unless
LD_DEBUG is set. ISTR it was this way four years ago.

christos