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Re: glibc cvs breaks JDK Mozilla plugin
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth at fuse dot net>, drepper at cygnus dot com,libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: glibc cvs breaks JDK Mozilla plugin
- From: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks at ivey dot uwo dot ca>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:22:54 -0500
Hi Jack and Ulrich,
> You were right. Creating a directory
>/usr/local/j2sdk1.3/jre/lib/ppc/client
>eliminates the reset of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH when one of first path is
>non-existant. Now mozilla launches fine with the JDK java plugin in place.
>What still bothers me is why the search for libpthread.so doesn't fail as
>well.
>Do you think the path is cleaned up only after the libpthread.so search is
>completed (successfully in this case) so the first search is uneffected. Well
>at least we have defined the problem.
Great.
> So we ought to be able to test case this by having two shared libs to
>be loaded by a test program with a path that includes a non-existant
>directory.
>If it senses the bug correctly the first lib should load and the second should
>fail because the path gets reset.
Ulrich,
Do you have enough information to recreate/track down the problem or do you
want us to write a test case for you?
Thanks,
Kevin