Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> libraries under /compat/linux so that they match the FreeBSD
> hierarchy (and teach ld-linux to use the same search path as the
> native loader). And yet another solution is to teach the linuxolator
> to first do an exhaustive search for libraries under /compat/linux
> and only then fall back to native ones (this seems similar to the
> above LD_LIBRARY_PATH incantation).

The problem is that the dynamic linker is only opening files based on 
the search path & cache - it doesn't know it isn't on a real linux box.

I think the only way to 'fix' it would be to kludge the linuxulator to 
treat ld.so specially but that would be pretty gross :(

It IS a pain tho! :)

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