> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:07:55 PDT
> To: [email protected]
> From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] pinstall breaks fakeroot when compiling openafs
> fo
> ***r Nokia tablets
>
> Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "pinstall" doesn't just clobber LD_PRELOAD and FAKEROOTKEY, it discards
> > *every* environment variable with majestic indifference whenever it does
> > execve to invoke /bin/cp and /bin/strip (or variations which depend on
> > the *target* OS being selected.)
>
> I'm fairly sure that when fakeroot is working properly, it overrides
> execve to pass the environment variables it needs regardless.
That's a clever idea. But in the source to fakeroot-1.9.5 it looks like
that's commented out -- never implemented or was removed?
Looks like the fakeroot folks were being very minimalist in any case.
Presumably they didn't want to wind up with usermode linux or
solaris zones.
-Marcus
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