5.3 LiveCD fixit shell geom(8) environment broken?

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Dec 30 17:43:38 PST 2004


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:30:10PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> +> > 2. missing necessary libs in /lib (hardcoded path?)
> +> > fix: ln -s /mnt2/lib /
> +>
> +> or preferably 'ldconfig -m /mnt2/lib'.  Again there is a compatibility
> +> issue that would make this unsafe to do automatically.
>
> This won't help, because geom(8) use dlopen(3) to load class-specific
> library and the path is hardcoded.

Well that's silly. Can we get a config option to change that? Or an
environment variable? :)

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