[Nix-dev] Re: kde-4.7, linker bug

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 08/19/2011 05:57 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> 
>> There is a bug in glibc ld, see
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657627
>>
>> It causes problems if a C++ programs loads plugin which is dynamically
>> linked to, e.g., libldap.
> 
> When do we actually run into this?  (I haven't.)  In other words, what's
> the practical severity?

grep ldap_int_tls_destroy ~/.xsession-errors

Normally this leads to crash on exit of a program. It seems that there is a 
workaround: export LD_BIND_NOW=true.
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
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