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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkmapnotify
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-09-02 17:46:16
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#if Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:56:25AM +0100, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > How do you suggest this information is found ? Via ldd ?
> >
> > Yes, ldd would work pretty well.. Just search for libc as part of a
> > fully qualified path (or perhaps just after a space...)
> >
> > For shared libraries, one would assume it was built with the rest of
> > KDE, and thus should be executable as-is.
>
> This won't work. Think about a simple wrapper script that
> calls the application. ldd on the script looks fine, but the
> axecutable actually called will die anyway. (For example,
> acroread works that way.)

Yep.

How about we just create a tiny wrapper script called knonotify or 
something, which does:
#!/bin/sh
unset LD_PRELOAD
exec $*

Rik

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