Bug 1212

Summary:

dlloader will not work when LD_BIND_NOW=1

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Adam Jackson <ajax>

Component:

Server/DDX/Xorg/dlloader

Assignee:

Adam Jackson <ajax>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

high

CC:

xorg-team

Version:

git

Hardware:

x86 (IA32)

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

351

Attachments:

Description	Flags
forcibly unset LD_BIND_NOW	none
dlloader-carp-on-ld-bind-now.patch	none

Description Adam Jackson 2004-08-27 12:43:17 UTC

i've heard several reports now from people trying to manually sort out module
load order for dlloader, which is in many cases unpossible.  this should never
happen, so i suspect they're setting LD_BIND_NOW somewhere without realizing it.
 cheesy one-off patch to work around this to follow.

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2004-08-27 12:44:21 UTC

Created attachment 747 [details] [review]
forcibly unset LD_BIND_NOW

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2004-08-27 14:40:04 UTC

Created attachment 749 [details] [review]
dlloader-carp-on-ld-bind-now.patch

previous patch won't work.  libdl checks for LD_BIND_NOW before main() even
runs, so by the time we try an unsetenv it's too late.	all we can do is tell
the user that it won't work.

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2004-08-27 14:42:36 UTC

requesting blocker status.  this patch only affects dlloader users, would be
really nice to include for the release.

Comment 4 Kevin E. Martin 2004-08-29 14:06:53 UTC

Patch looks okay.  Checking in and closing.

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