[Nix-dev] glibc-2.13 hell

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 04:27:55PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote:
> PS I had custom libfreetype  in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (set by the
> ~/.bash_profile) at the moment of nixos-rebuild, like this:
> 
> [ierton at greyblade:~]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /nix/store/zwilpkw86liih06x1zg6avlkd17awyfn-freetype-2.4.10/lib:/run/opengl-driver/lib:/run/opengl-driver-32/lib

If you end up dynamically linking in anything that mixes glibc 2.13 and 2.17
(be it RPATH, be it LD_LIBRARY_PATH mixture), you may very well end up in those
troubles.

Notice that QT programs may also try to load libraries from QT_PLUGIN_PATH,
QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH, ALSA_PLUGIN_DIRS, ....