glibc cvs breaks JDK Mozilla plugin

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

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