I got a mail from someone on debian-devel telling me someone already ITP is on 20th april, so I guess I better not continue working on it...
Ron On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > It can be used in 2 ways: > > > > 1. Using the environmental variable > > (sh syntax) > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 > > export LD_PRELOAD > > > > (csh syntax) > > setenv LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libsafe.so.1 > > In such a case it need not live in /usr/lib, as it does not need to be > seen by ld.so. > > > 2. Using the file: /etc/ld.so.preload, if this is used the library must be > > on the root filesystem (according to the provided documentation) > > If you're going to offer this, there's only one place it can go: /lib. > This is the only library directory guaranteed to be on the root > filesystem. > > How about using debconf in the postinst to offer adding it to > /etc/ld.so.preload if the user wants it? And remember to delete it in > the prerm! > > Julian > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg > Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/ >
