Bug#699832: vlc lib directory is inferred from /proc/*/maps, with no (documented?) way to override

2013-02-07 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Rémi Denis-Courmont r...@remlab.net writes: Le mardi 5 février 2013 19:44:17, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : […] Obviously, there should be a way for the user to override the ‘lib’ directory location inferred from the ‘maps’ file contents. (Ideally, such a feature is to be activated

Bug#699832: vlc lib directory is inferred from /proc/*/maps, with no (documented?) way to override

2013-02-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Package: vlc-nox Version: 2.0.3-4 In order to allow for “relocation”, vlc(1) (cvlc(1)) reads the /proc/${PID}/maps file to infer the ‘lib’ directory location. This fails, however, for Debian Live systems, as there ‘maps’ will point to somewhere on the bottom layer

Bug#699832: vlc lib directory is inferred from /proc/*/maps, with no (documented?) way to override

2013-02-05 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
tags 699832 + help thanks Hello, You can override/extend the paths that VLC searches for plugins using the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. Note that adding plugins while running is not supported (they will be ignored). If that's not enough, I don't really see any alternative to